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2020-07-21
Variable Diagonal Loading Based Robust Concentric Hexagonal Antenna Array with Low Side Lobe Level Using Tapering Windows
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 103, 251-263, 2020
Abstract
In this paper, the performance of a concentric hexagonal antenna array (CHAA) is investigated with the exploitation of a robust variable diagonal loading (VDL) technique in the presence of direction of arrival (DOA) mismatch. The performance of minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) based CHAA is compared with the performance of existing MVDR based concentric circular antenna arrays (CCAAs), and it is found that the proposed MVDR based CHAA provides 25.54% narrow half-power beamwidth (HPBW) and lower side lobe level than the existing MVDR based CCAAs. When DOA mismatch occurs between main beam steering direction and actual signal-of-interest (SOI) direction, the performance of MVDR based CHAA is deteriorated. In the case of DOA mismatch, to ameliorate the performance of CHAA, this paper proposes VDL technique for the CHAA processor and compare the performance of proposed robust CHAA with existing robust CHAAs. The proposed VDL based robust CHAA delivers 88.37% and 78.56% higher output power for 2˚ DOA mismatch than existing fixed diagonal loading (FDL) and optimal diagonal loading (ODL) based CHAAs, respectively. Several tapering window functions are proposed to reduce the side lobe level of CHAA. Performance of the proposed beamformer is analyzed utilizing MATLAB environment in various scenarios.
Citation
Md. Yeakub Ali, Md. Selim Hossain, and Md. Farhamdur Reza, "Variable Diagonal Loading Based Robust Concentric Hexagonal Antenna Array with Low Side Lobe Level Using Tapering Windows," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 103, 251-263, 2020.
doi:10.2528/PIERC20060604
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