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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

The Software Antenna: A New Concept of Kaleidoscopic Antenna in Multimedia Radio and Mobile Computing Era

Yoshio KARASAWA, Takashi SEKIGUCHI, Takashi INOUE

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Based on a recent remarkable development of digital beamforming (DBF) antenna technologies, we propose a new concept of kaleidoscopic antenna, we call it "software antenna," which is a more general one extending DBF schemes. The software antenna instantly reconfigures itself adapting its software and hardware to changes in the radio-environment. To realize the software antenna, the development of high-speed reconfigurable FPGAs is indispensable. As an intelligent antenna, we believe the software antenna could play a key role in the days of software radio having a function of mobile computing.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E80-B No.8 pp.1214-1217
Publication Date
1997/08/25
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Special Section LETTER (Special Issue on Mobile Computing)
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