An experimental realization of a fully-adaptive smart antenna

Azaro, Renzo and Ioriatti, Luca and Martinelli, Mauro and Benedetti, Manuel and Massa, Andrea (2008) An experimental realization of a fully-adaptive smart antenna. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    In this letter, the structure of the prototype of a smart antenna working in the 2.4 GHz band is described. The radiating structure is composed by a 8-elements linear array with a finite reflecting plane and its adaptive behaviour is obtained by means of a set of electronically-driven vector modulators that control the array weights. The antenna system is equipped with a control software based on a Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO) algorithm that enables the system to adapt to the complex interference scenario. A selected set of numerical and experimental results are reported and discussed to assess the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com

    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
    T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5105.5 Computer Networks
    Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC760 Electromagnetism
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Smart antennas, Adaptive Arrays, Antenna Prototype
    Report Number: DISI-11-051
    Repository staff approval on: 07 Mar 2011

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