TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed Beamforming Techniques for Flexible Communications Networks
AU - Holtom, Jacob
AU - Ma, Owen
AU - Herschfelt, Andrew
AU - Landon, David G.
AU - Bliss, Daniel W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this paper, we implement and demonstrate a distributed communications beamforming system that provides increased range, data rate, and robustness to interference. By treating two distributed, locally-coherent meshes as antenna arrays, with n_m_A and n_m_B elements respectively, we develop an approach that produces an n_m_A2n_m_B performance improvement in signal-to-noise ratio over a traditional single-antenna to single-antenna link in the absence of interference. We further demonstrate that in the presence of interference, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio improvement is significantly greater for a wide range of environments. We implement this system on a network of software-defined radios and demonstrate both simulated and experimental results both with and without interference.
AB - In this paper, we implement and demonstrate a distributed communications beamforming system that provides increased range, data rate, and robustness to interference. By treating two distributed, locally-coherent meshes as antenna arrays, with n_m_A and n_m_B elements respectively, we develop an approach that produces an n_m_A2n_m_B performance improvement in signal-to-noise ratio over a traditional single-antenna to single-antenna link in the absence of interference. We further demonstrate that in the presence of interference, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio improvement is significantly greater for a wide range of environments. We implement this system on a network of software-defined radios and demonstrate both simulated and experimental results both with and without interference.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEEECONF53345.2021.9723094
DO - 10.1109/IEEECONF53345.2021.9723094
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127028927
T3 - Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
SP - 400
EP - 404
BT - 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021
A2 - Matthews, Michael B.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021
Y2 - 31 October 2021 through 3 November 2021
ER -