An approach for low sidelobe beamforming in uniform concentric circular arrays

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1363-1368

  Albagory, Yasser Attia ^a   Dessouky, Moawad ^a   Sharshar, Hamdy ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Circular Antenna Arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CIRCULAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; CURRENT AMPLITUDES; NORMALIZED GAUSSIAN; UNIFORM CONCENTRIC CIRCULAR ARRAYS (UCCA);

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 36448968608     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-007-9310-3     Document Type: Article

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