A study of retrodirective array performance in the presence of multipath

Author

Loadman, Chris ; Chen, Zhizhang

Author_Institution

Microwave & Wireless Lab., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada

fYear

2004

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The paper attempts to analyze the performance of a heterodyne phase conjugate retrodirective transceiver for full duplex communications in the presence of multipath signals and amplitude and phase perturbations across a four element antenna array. Simulation results are given and it is shown that the retrodirective array improves multipath fading in a full duplex scheme even under amplitude and phase imperfections across the array.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; directive antennas; fading channels; heterodyne detection; multipath channels; transceivers; adaptive antenna array; amplitude perturbations; full duplex communications; heterodyne phase conjugate retrodirective transceiver; multipath fading; multipath signals; phase perturbations; radiation pattern; retrodirective array; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Directive antennas; Interference; Microwave antenna arrays; Phased arrays; Radio frequency; Transceivers; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Networks and Services Research, 2004. Proceedings. Second Annual Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2096-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DNSR.2004.1344711

Filename

1344711