We propose a new, general, method for spatial filtering by beam-forming. The desired filter, specified analytically on an n-dimensional sphere, is extended to n+1-dimensional Euclidean space. A continuous beamforming function is then obtained by the n+1-dimensional Fourier transform of the extended filter. The beamforming weight at a given array element corresponds then to a sample of the function at the array element location., The scheme is a generalisation of focused beamforming on a single point by phase difference alignment. The analytic framework allows tractable, stable determination of beamforming weights, and for clear filter specification. By avoiding approximating a Dirac, desired areas can be covered with reduced side lobes. Multiple areas may be targeted simultaneously. In communications applications, channel information updates can be reduced, and movement accounted for. A WiFi demonstration shows that more flexible beam-shapes can be beneficial for real-life examples, factoring in attenuation.
Title
Flexibeam: Analytic Spatial Filtering By Beamforming
Published in
2016 Ieee International Conference On Acoustics, Speech And Signal Processing Proceedings
Pagination
4
Pages
2877-2880
Conference
IEEE 2016 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, March 15-20, 2016
Date
2016
Publisher
New York, Ieee
ISSN
1520-6149
ISBN
978-1-4799-9988-0
Note
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Record creation date
2016-12-20