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- Title
Smart Antenna UKM Testbed for Digital Beamforming System.
- Authors
Islam, Mohammad Tariqul; Misran, Norbahiah; Yatim, Baharudin
- Abstract
A new design of smart antenna testbed developed at UKM for digital beamforming purpose is proposed. The smart antenna UKM testbed developed based on modular design employing two novel designs of L-probe fed inverted hybrid E-H (LIEH) array antenna and software reconfigurable digital beamforming system (DBS). The antenna is developed based on using the novel LIEH microstrip patch element design arranged into 4 × 1 uniform linear array antenna. An interface board is designed to interface to the ADC board with the RF front-end receiver. The modular concept of the system provides the capability to test the antenna hardware, beamforming unit, and beamforming algorithm in an independent manner, thus allowing the smart antenna system to be developed and tested in parallel, hence reduces the design time. The DBS was developed using a high-performance TMS320C6711TM floating-point DSP board and a 4-channel RF front-end receiver developed in-house. An interface board is designed to interface to the ADC board with the RF front-end receiver. A four-element receiving array testbed at 1.88–2.22 GHz frequency is constructed, and digital beamforming on this testbed is successfully demonstrated.
- Subjects
BEAMFORMING; ANTENNA arrays; STRIP transmission lines; RADIO attenuators; SOFTWARE radio; DIGITIZATION; ALGORITHMS; SIGNALS &; signaling; RADIO detectors
- Publication
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009, p1
- ISSN
1687-6172
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2009/128516