• DocumentCode
    2363243
  • Title

    Some results on the degrees of freedom of Costas arrays

  • Author

    Drakakis, Konstantinos

  • Author_Institution
    UCD CASL, Univ. Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-19 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    We study the number of degrees of freedom of Costas arrays, and we find they are surprisingly few. We also prove partial results about Golomb and Welch Costas arrays, while, for the latter, we also make a curious observation.
  • Keywords
    matrix algebra; sonar detection; Golomb arrays; Welch Costas arrays; degrees of freedom; sonar detection; square matrices; Autocorrelation; Educational institutions; Frequency; Galois fields; H infinity control; Joining processes; Mechanical engineering; Sonar detection; User centered design; Vectors; Costas arrays; Golomb method; Welch method; degrees of freedom; finite fields; primitive roots;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2010 44th Annual Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Princeton, NJ
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7416-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7417-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISS.2010.5464749
  • Filename
    5464749