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Prof Raed Abd-Alhameed, Prof Fun Hu Applications accepted all year round Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Bradford United Kingdom Communications Engineering Electrical Engineering

About the Project

A major problem encountered with antenna arrays is when the bandwidth used is covering a wider spectrum. This causes beam squint and thus will affect the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and subsequently the throughput of the whole system.

A technique could be adopted to cancel this effect either at the RF or baseband processing. The idea of this project is to design an equalizer to remove such effects even with or without the channel that exists between the transmitter and a receiver. It will be good to consider DVB-S2X and how this system can be improved.

References

[1] P. Delos, T. Lead, and B. Broughton, “Phased Array Antenna Patterns — Part 2 : Grating Lobes and Beam Squint,” vol. 54, no. 2, 2020.
[2] B. Wang, F. Gao, S. Jin, H. Lin, and G. Y. Li, “Spatial- and frequency-wideband effects in millimeter-wave massive MIMO systems,” IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 66, no. 13, pp. 3393–3406, 2018, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2018.2831628.
[3] B. Wang et al., “Spatial-Wideband Effect in Massive MIMO with Application in mmWave Systems,” IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 134–141, 2018, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2018.1701051.
[4] B. Wang, M. Jian, F. Gao, G. Y. Li, and I. T. Mar, “Beam Squint and Channel Estimation for Wideband mmWave Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems,” pp. 1–30, 2019
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[7] I. P. Roberts and S. Vishwanath, “Beamforming cancellation design for millimeter-wave full-duplex,” 2019 IEEE Glob. Commun. Conf. GLOBECOM 2019 - Proc., 2019, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013116.
[8] J. Jiang, M. A. Ingram, and S. Member, “Spherical-Wave Model for Short-Range MIMO,” vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 1534–1541, 2005.
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[10] Mingming Cai, J. Nicholas Laneman and Bertrand Hochwald, Carrier Aggregation for Phased-Array Analog Beamforming with Beam Squint, IEEE Global Communications Conference, 4-8 Dec. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254862

Where will I study?

University of Bradford

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