Adaptive nulling algorithms that minimize the total array output power from the array require constraints on the adaptive weights, otherwise nulls would be placed in the main beam and the desired signal rejected. The concept of cancellation patterns is reviewed and extended to partial adaptive nulling. Cancellation patterns are then extracted from adaptive nulling results with a genetic algorit...

-This paper discusses the deployment of Genetic algorithm optimization method for synthesis of antenna array radiation pattern in adaptive beam forming. The synthesis problem discussed is to find the weights of the antenna array elements that are optimum to provide the radiation pattern with maximum reduction in the side lobe level. This technique proved its effectiveness in improving the perfo...

This report focuses on the application of adaptive arrays to the Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular systems. Adaptive arrays have been proposed as early as in the 1960s to improve the signal quality, but most of its applications were restricted to defense purposes. Recently, there has been a surge in interest of applying adaptive arrays for ce...

This thesis investigates broadband adaptive beamforming for signal targets located in the near field of an array. The primary application of this research is hands-free sound pickup and speech enhancement for wideband telephony. The technical challenges are three-fold. Broadband beamformers are difficult to design due to large frequency dependent beampattern variations and reduced performances ...

As the use of phased array radars becomes more established for weather surveillance, adaptive array processing techniques will become more important to the weather radar community. Such techniques can be applied to phased array radars to improve angular resolution and also to suppress clutter compared to conventional beamforming methods. Thus, enhanced details of weather phenomena can be realiz...

This This paper describes a novel method for the hardware Design and realization of adaptive filter for the application of Adaptive Digital beam former suitable for FPGAs. The planar phased array configuration considered in this case is sixteen element array. Design approach followed is modular design and each one of the modules is reused to make the sixteen element planar array configuration. ...

MC-CDMA is an attractive multi-access method for the next generation high-speed mobile communication systems. The uplink transmission performance is limited by the multi-access interference (MAI) from other users since all users share the same bandwidth. Adaptive antenna array can be used to suppress the MAI and to improve the uplink transmission performance. In this paper, we propose a frequen...

This paper proposes a new spatio-temporal equalization method using a cascade configuration of an adaptive antenna array and a DFE (Decision Feedback Equalizer). The spatio-temporal equalizer with the cascade configuration can be realized in low computational complexity, however, the error performance surface becomes a fourth-order function of the weights, and possibly has two minima. In order ...

In this paper, DOA estimation is an important research area in array signal processing. The performance of adaptive beamforming methods are known to degrade severly in the presence of uncertainty in the signal sight direction. We propose a novel adaptive beamforming with a Bayesian method. Bayesian method a posterior probability density DOA estimator has been shown to perform excellently. The p...