Smart Antennas for Battlefield Multimedia Wireless Networks with Dual Use Applications

Abstract

Work under this contract focused on algorithms for space time processing (STP) address the critical needs of the wireless battlefield network including high speed data, enhanced coverage and capacity, low power, and antijam capability. STP, also known as smart antennas, has application in battlefield multimedia distributed wireless networks and can readily be conformed to civilian mobile communications. Significant progress was made in the areas of space time channel modeling, space time receiver algorithms, and space time transmit algorithms. It was shown that smart antenna enabled systems are capable of improving performance in severe multipath environments, in the presence of co-channel interference, and with unknown or variable antenna geometry. Many of the proposed algorithms were ultimately demonstrated in a TDMA smart antenna testbed built at Stanford.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 28, 1998
Accession Number
ADA357870

Entities

People

  • Arogyaswami Paulraj

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Antenna Arrays
  • Battlefields
  • Co-Channel Interference
  • Code Division Multiple Access
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Systems
  • Finite Alphabet
  • Geometry
  • Intersymbol Interference
  • Mobile Communications
  • Mobile Phones
  • Modulation
  • Multiple Access
  • Networks
  • Signal Processing
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Space