IEICE Trans - Sidelobe Canceller Using Multiple Quantized Weights Combining for Reducing Excitation Error

Sidelobe Canceller Using Multiple Quantized Weights Combining for Reducing Excitation Error

Tasuku KURIYAMA
Kazunari KIHIRA
Toru TAKAHASHI
Yoshihiko KONISHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E96-B No.10 pp.2483-2490
Publication Date: 2013/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2483
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Progress in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISAP2012)
Category: Adaptive Array Antennas/MIMO
Keyword:
sidelobe canceller, excitation error, null forming,

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Summary:
This paper presents a method of reducing excitation error in sidelobe canceller without increasing the resolution of the digital phase shifters and the digital attenuators. In general sidelobe canceller, the null direction is shifted because of the excitation error (quantization error and random error, etc.) and the suppression capability degrades. The proposed method can alleviate the influence of the excitation error by vector composition of some quantized excitation weights. Computer simulation results show that the output signal to interference and noise power ratio (SINR) using the proposed method can improve greatly in comparison with that using conventional quantized excitation weight.