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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

On Array Calibration Technique for Multipath Reference Waves

Hiroyoshi YAMADA, Hiroshi SAKAI, Yoshio YAMAGUCHI

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High resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm for array antennas becomes popular in these days. However, there are several error factors such as mutual coupling among the elements in actual array. Hence array calibration is indispensable to realize intrinsic performance of the algorithm. In the many applications, it is preferable that the calibration can be done in the practical environment in operation. In such a case, the incident wave becomes coherent multipath wave. Calibration of array in the multipath environment is a hard problem, even when DOA of elementary waves is known. To realize array calibration in the multipath environment will be useful for some applications even if reference signals are required. In this report, we consider property of reference waves in the multipath environment and derive a new calibration technique by using the multipath coherent reference waves. The reference wave depends on not only the DOA but also complex amplitude of each elementary wave. However, the proposed technique depends on the DOA only. This is the main advantage of the technique. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E94-B No.5 pp.1201-1206
Publication Date
2011/05/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E94.B.1201
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Antenna and Propagation Technologies Contributing to Diversification of Wireless Technologies)
Category
Antennas and Antenna Measurement

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