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Adaptive antennas: the calibration problem

  • Ben Allen
    ,
  • Neville Tyler
    ,
  • A.Hamid Aghvami
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

Adaptive antennas are recognized as a means of increasing the performance of communications systems. However, practical realization of such systems relies on suitable calibration of distortion effects caused by the circuitry and antenna structures. This work presents a detailed analysis of the classes of distortion that degrade the performance of adaptive antennas. This uses the results of an adaptive antenna testbed employing an eight-element circular array to illustrate the impact of temperature on performance. Design techniques that aid calibration are then described. In particular, digital downconversion, array design, harmonic sampling, sample clock dither, and clock management are discussed as a means of designing an adaptive array with the calibration problem in mind.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 114-122

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

IEEE Communications Magazine (Volume 42, Issue 12)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/12/2004

Publication status

Published - 01/12/2004

ISSN

0163-6804

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/270636
  • Scopus: 11244287331

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