Implementation of a cognitive radio front-end using rotatable controlled reconfigurable antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1773-1778

  Tawk, Y ^a   Costantine, J ^b   Avery, K ^c   Christodoulou, C G ^a  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio; reconfigurable antenna; stepper motor; UWB

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; ANTENNA SYSTEM; COGNITIVE RADIO; DARLINGTON; DRIVING MOTORS; FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; LABVIEW; PARALLEL PORT; RADIATION PROPERTIES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; ROTATIONAL MOTION; STEPPER MOTOR; UWB; UWB ANTENNA; WHITE SPACE;

ANTENNA RADIATION; FREQUENCY AGILITY; FREQUENCY BANDS; RADIO; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STEPPING MOTORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79955577385     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2122239     Document Type: Article

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