Fast beamforming of electronically steerable parasitic array radiator antennas: Theory and experiment

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1819-1832

  Sun, Chen ^a   Hirata, Akifumi ^b   Ohira, Takashi ^b   Karmakar, Nemai C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b IEEE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORK; AERIAL BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL BEAMFORMING; ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE PARASITIC ARRAY RADIATOR; FAST BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM; SIMULTANEOUS PERTURBATION STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION; SMART ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 3843086185     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.831314     Document Type: Article

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