A Fully-Adaptive Smart Antenna Protype: Ideal Model and Experimental Validation in Complex Interference Scenarios

Benedetti, Manuel and Oliveri, Giacomo and Rocca, Paolo and Massa, Andrea (2009) A Fully-Adaptive Smart Antenna Protype: Ideal Model and Experimental Validation in Complex Interference Scenarios. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    In this report, the architecture of a smart antenna prototype is described and its functionality assessed. The system prototype is composed by an 8-elements linear arrays of dipoles with a finite reflecting plane and the adaptive behavior is obtained modifying a set of array weights with electronically-driven vector modulators. In order to real-time react to complex interference scenarios, the system is controlled by a software control module based on a Particle Swarm Optimizer. To demonstrate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed implementation, a set of representative results concerned with different interface scenarios is reported and discussed. The final version of this article is available at the url of the journal PIER http://www.jpier.org/PIER/

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7885 Computer Engineering
    Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC661 Electromagnetic Theory
    Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC760 Electromagnetism
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Smart Antennas, Adaptive Array, Phased Arrays, Adaptive Control, Particle Swarm Optimizer
    Report Number: DISI-11-021
    Repository staff approval on: 25 Feb 2011

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