of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy COLLABORATIVE DECODING AND ITS PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS By Xin Li May 2006 Chair: Tan F. Wong Major Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Antenna array processing is a common technique that utilizes spatial diversity to enhance the...

In this paper, a vector channel madel is pposed and some statistical pmperties of the asymptotic efficiency of the decorrelating detector with base-station awys are investigated. It is shown that we can get gain over the conventional deamlator by employing antenna arrays and the gain i n " s as the number of antennas inneases and the angle dispersion It is also shown that we can increase the as...

The use of multi-antenna systems with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology will play a key role in providing high spectrum efficiency for next generation mobile communication systems. This thesis offers valuable insights on the design of compact multi-antennas for efficient MIMO communications. In the course of the thesis work, several novel six-port antenna designs have been propos...

We address the problem of interference as related to Satellite Personal Communication Networks (S-PCNs). Basic low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation is considered. The paper uses combined adaptive antenna arrays and adaptive filtering technique. This hybrid linear adaptive technique provides improved performance eliminating interference, particularly uncorrelated signals residing in the antenna s...

This paper investigates a direct Target Motion Analysis (TMA) estimator for the problem of calculating the states (i.e. source positions, velocities, etc.) of multiple sources from measurements made with multiple (fixed or moving) antenna arrays. We use the novel Subspace Data Fusion (SDF) approach and extend it to the multisensor case. In the SDF approach, subspaces are formed in a first pre-p...

Beam-scanning antennas are attractive for high-bit-rate data communication systems and high resolution sensing systems in millimeter-wave band. Waveguide antenna is one of the most attractive antennas for such millimeter-wave systems because of its low loss and high efficiency characteristics in high frequency band. Horizontally-beam-scanning antennas such as phased arrays and DBF (Digital Beam...

Flexible microstrip antenna arrays have become a necessity in today's miniaturized biomedical wireless devices. Implantable and wearable biomedical devices such as pacemakers, drug delivery systems, heart rate monitors, and respiratory monitors need to communicate with exterior base station devices and relayed to healthcare professionals. In this paper, multiple flexible microstrip antenna arra...

The geometrical parameters of antenna arrays in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) link that will maximize the ergodic channel capacity of the system are investigated. The problem of selecting the optimum number of the elements at the base station antenna array is also included. The genetic algorithm technique is applied for the optimisation process, using the ergodic capacity as a fitness...

We demonstrate millimeter-scale optical waveguide grating antennas with unidirectional emission for integrated optical phased arrays. Unidirectional emission eliminates the fundamental problem of blind spots in the element factor of a phased array caused by reflections of antenna radiation within the substrate. Over 90% directionality is demonstrated using a design consisting of two silicon nit...