This thesis develops a system for synchronizing two wireless transmitters so that they are able to implement a distributed beamformer in several different channel models. This thesis considers a specific implementation of the system and proposes a metric to quantify its performance. The system's performance is investigated in single-path and multi-path time-invariant channel scenarios, as well as in single-path time-varying channel scenarios. Where prior systems have difficulty in implementing a distributed beamformer in multi-path channels and/or mobile scenarios, the results of this thesis show that the Round-Trip Time-Division distributed beamforming system is able to perform as a beamformer in all three of the channel models considered.

Creator

• Coey, Tyson Curtis

Contributors

• Vaz, Richard
• McNeill, John A.
• Brown, Donald R.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-071007-124515

Keyword

• distributed beamforming
• carrier synchronization

Advisor

• Brown, Donald R.

Committee

• McNeill, John A.
• Vaz, Richard

Defense date

• 2007-07-06

Year

• 2007

Date created

• 2007-07-10

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-11-20