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Direction of arrival estimation in smart antenna for marine communication

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Thematic Areas : Wireless Network and Application

Publisher : 2016 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), IEEE.

Source : 2016 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), IEEE (2016)

Url : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7754416/

ISBN : 9781509003969

Keywords : Adaptive antenna arrays, Adaptive Beamforming, Algorithm design and analysis, Antenna arrays, array signal processing, base station, Base stations, communication link, direction of arrival, Direction Of Arrival (DoA), direction of arrival estimation, direction-of-arrival estimation, Directional Antennas, DoA estimation, DoA parameter, Estimation, fishing vessel, marine communication, mathematical model, multiple access technique, Multiple signal classification, smart antenna, Wi-Fi antenna array, wireless LAN

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Engineering

Center : Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA)

Department : Electronics and Communication

Year : 2016

Abstract : A communication link between fishing vessels or with the sea shore using Wi-Fi is explored in this paper. For effective communication a high gain antenna is mounted at the sea shore which acts as base station (BS). Although narrow band directional antenna used in the Base Station (BS) ensures the connectivity for a long distance, the coverage will be poor without any steering mechanism, as the antenna beam is fixed in a particular direction. The proposed smart antenna with adaptive beamforming and multiple access technique can ensure the coverage without losing connectivity at long distance. The main objective is to find the Direction of Arrival (DoA) of the received signal from the fishing vessel moving at a constant velocity for adaptive steering of the antenna beam. The DoA parameter gives the phase and amplitude of the signal transmitted from the fishing vessel. The same phase and amplitude help to calculate the beam forming vectors in the smart antenna and it adaptively steers the beam towards fishing vessel. This paper describes how DoA estimation can apply to a beam forming Wi-Fi antenna array which is used for marine communication, and give a mathematical model of DoA estimation.

Cite this Research Publication : D. M. Vijayan and Dr. Sreedevi K Menon, “Direction of arrival estimation in smart antenna for marine communication”, in 2016 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), 2016

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