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creators_name: Benedetti, Manuel
creators_name: Azaro, Renzo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: Experimental validation of a fully-adaptive smart antenna prototype
ispublished: pub
subjects: TU
full_text_status: public
abstract: The architecture of a fully-adaptive smart antenna working in the 2.4 GHz band is described and its functionalities preliminarily assessed. The radiating unity consists of an eight-element linear array of dipoles with a finite reflecting plane. The adaptive behaviour is achieved by means of a set of electronically-driven vector modulators that realise the array weights. The capability to react in real-time to complex interference scenarios is provided by an SW control module based on the particle swarm optimiser (PSO) algorithm. To assess the effectiveness of such an implementation, a selected set of results is reported and discussed. This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in Electronics Letters and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at IET Digital Library.
date: 2008-05
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Benedetti, Manuel and Azaro, Renzo and Massa, Andrea  (2008) Experimental validation of a fully-adaptive smart antenna prototype.  [Technical Report]     
document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/327/1/DISI-11-046.pdf