Retrodirective distributed transmit beamforming with two-way source synchronization

2010 44th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Preuss, Robert D ^a   Brown III, D Richard ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute ^*

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SOURCES; BEAM FORMERS; LOCAL TIME; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PASS BANDS; PICOSECONDS; POWER GAINS; SOURCE NODES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOLS; TIMING ERRORS; TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; VIRTUAL ANTENNA ARRAYS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ERRORS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 77953691797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISS.2010.5464801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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