Ultra wideband impulse beamforming: It is a different world

Signal Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2198-2207

  Ries, Sigmar ^a   Kaiser, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Beampattern; Broadband; Grating lobes; Narrowband; Sidelobes; UMB

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DELAY CIRCUITS; IMPULSE NOISE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

BEAMFORMING; BEAMPATTERN; BROADBAND; GRATING LOBES; NARROWBAND; SIDELOBES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33745755351     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.07.041     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. C. Buchholz, T. Kaiser, Is DoA estimation feasible for dense multipath UWB indoor channels? Wireless 2004, 2004.
2. Murino V., Trucco A., and Tesei A. Beam pattern formulation and analysis for wide-band beamforming systems using sparse arrays. Signal Processing 56 (1997) 177-183
3. S. Ries, T. Kaiser, Towards beamforming for UWB signals, Proc. EUSIPCO 2004, 2004.
4. S. Ries, T. Kaiser, C. Senger, UWB beamforming and DoA estimation, in UWB communication systems-a comprehensive overview, EURASIP Book Series 2006, to appear.
5. Hussain M.G. Principles of space-time array processing for ultrawide-band impulse radar and radio communications. IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technologies 51 3 (2002)
6. Ghavami M., and Kohno R. Recursive fan filters for a broad-band partially adaptive antenna. IEEE Trans. Comm. 48 2 (2000)
7. Ghavami M., and Kohno R. Improvement in the DOA estimation of broadband signals using partially IIR beamformers. IEEE Trans. Comm. 50 6 (2002)
8. Haimovich A.M., Berin M.O., and Teti Jr. J.G. A sampling-based approach to wideband interference cancellation. IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems 34 1 (2003) 2-12
9. Bond E.J., Li X., Hagness S.C., and Veen B.v.d. Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for early detection of breast cancer. IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation 51 8 (2003)
10. Trucco A., and Curletto S. Flattening the side-lobes of wide-band beampatterns. IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. 28 4 (2003) 760-762
11. Papoulis A. Signal Analysis (1985), McGraw-Hill, New York
12. Steinberg B. Principles of Aperture and Array System Design (1976), Wiley, New York