A stochastic beamforming algorithm for ESPAR antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 745-748

  Barousis, Vlasis ^a   Kanatas, Athanasios G ^a   Kalis, Antonis ^b   Papadias, Constantinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Beamforming; Electronically steerable passive array radiator (espar) antennas; Feedback systems; Multiple input multiple output (mimo) systems; Optimization algorithms

Indexed keywords

BEAM SPACE; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOPS; ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE PASSIVE ARRAY RADIATORS; ESPAR ANTENNAS; FEEDBACK SYSTEMS; MOBILE HANDSETS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEMS; MULTIUSER SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; RADIATION PATTERNS; REAL TIME; SENSITIVE DEVICES; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; MOBILE ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATORS; STEERABLE ANTENNAS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 76749146104     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2004783     Document Type: Article

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