Distributed beamforming with software-defined radios: Frequency synchronization and digital feedback

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4787-4792

  Quitin, Francois ^a   Ur Rahman, Muhammad Mahboob ^b   Mudumbai, Raghuraman ^b   Madhow, Upamanyu ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; RADIO; RADIO RECEIVERS; SOFTWARE RADIO; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CARRIER FREQUENCY; CARRIER PHASIS; DIGITAL FEEDBACK; DISTRIBUTED BEAMFORMING; DISTRIBUTED TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION; PILOT SIGNALS; RADIOFREQUENCIES; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; STATE OF THE ART;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 84877658480     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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