Fast beamforming for mobile satellite receiver phased arrays: Theory and experiment

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1645-1654

  Fakharzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Jamali, S Hamidreza ^b,c   Mousavi, Pedram ^c   Safavi Naeini, Safieddin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Intelwaves Technologies Ltd   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adaptive array; Beamforming; Mobile phased array antenna; Satellite communications; Smart antenna

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ARRAY; ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; ARRAY OUTPUT; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING PARAMETERS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; BROADBAND PERFORMANCE; CONTROL VOLTAGES; FAST CONVERGENCE; GRADIENT ESTIMATION; KU-BAND; MICROWAVE COMPONENTS; MOBILE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA; MOBILE PLATFORM; MOBILE SATELLITE; NOISE EFFECTS; NONUNIFORM; PHASE-CONJUGATE; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PHASED ARRAYS; RECEIVED POWER; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SIGNAL DIRECTION; STEP SIZE; SUB-ARRAYS;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; POWER CONVERTERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SMART ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 67649389651     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2019911     Document Type: Article

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