Experimental characterization of UWB beamformers based on multidimensional beam filters

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 304-309

  Liang, Liang ^a   Hum, Sean Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; multidimensional digital filters; ultrawideband (UWB) antennas

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SPATIAL FILTERING; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAMFORMERS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DIGITAL FILTERS; MULTIUSER ENVIRONMENTS; RADIO CHANNELS; SPATIAL FILTERS; ULTRA WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; UWB ANTENNA; UWB CHANNEL; UWB SIGNALS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; BIT ERROR RATE; DIGITAL FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651332774     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2090487     Document Type: Article

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