A fully-adaptive smart antenna prototype: Numerical modeling and experimental validation

Author

Benedetti, M. ; Rocca, P. ; Azaro, R. ; Massa, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento

fYear

2008

fDate

5-11 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, the architecture of a fully-adaptive smart antenna working in the 2.4 GHz band has been described and validated. The system prototype consists of four modules. As far as the radiating module is concerned, it consists of a 8-elements linear array of dipoles connected to electronically-driven weights controlled by a PSO-based control module. In order to preliminary assess the effectiveness of the proposed implementation, a result concerning an example of interference scenario has been discussed.

Keywords

UHF antennas; adaptive antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; dipole antenna arrays; linear antenna arrays; particle swarm optimisation; PSO-based control module; antenna radiation pattern; frequency 2.4 GHz; fully-adaptive smart antenna prototype; interference scenario; linear dipole antenna array; numerical modeling; Adaptive arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Attenuation; Control systems; Dipole antennas; Interference; Linear antenna arrays; Numerical models; Prototypes; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2041-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2008.4619897

Filename

4619897