Sparse array design for wideband beamforming with reduced complexity in tapped delay-lines

MB Hawes, W Liu - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse wideband array design for sensor location optimization is highly nonlinear and it is
traditionally solved by genetic algorithms (GAs) or other similar optimization methods. This is …

Compressive sensing‐based approach to the design of linear robust sparse antenna arrays with physical size constraint

MB Hawes, W Liu - IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In sparse arrays, the randomness of antenna locations avoids the introduction of grating
lobes, while allowing adjacent antenna spacings to be greater than half a wavelength. This …

Compressive sensing based sparse antenna array design for directional modulation

B Zhang, W Liu, X Gou - IET Microwaves, Antennas & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Directional modulation (DM) can be achieved based on uniform linear arrays where the
maximum spacing between adjacent antennas is half‐wavelength of the frequency of …

Robust sparse antenna array design via compressive sensing

MB Hawes, W Liu - 2013 18th International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In sparse arrays, the randomness of antenna locations avoids the introduction of grating
lobes, while allowing adjacent antenna spacings to be greater than half a wavelength. This …

Multi‐carrier based phased antenna array design for directional modulation

B Zhang, W Liu - IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Directional modulation (DM) has been developed based on narrowband antenna arrays,
which can form the desired constellation values in the directions of interest while scrambling …

Positional modulation design based on multiple phased antenna arrays

B Zhang, W Liu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional directional modulation designs are normally based on a single phased array,
with the assumption that eavesdroppers and desired users are in different directions …

Reducing the number of elements in the synthesis of a broadband linear array with multiple simultaneous frequency-invariant beam patterns

Y Liu, J Cheng, K Da Xu, S Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of reducing the number of elements in a broadband linear array with multiple
simultaneous crossover frequency-invariant (FI) patterns is considered. Different from the …

Sparse microphone array design for wideband beamforming

MB Hawes, W Liu - 2013 18th International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sparse wideband sensor/microphone array design problem is highly nonlinear and it is
traditionally solved by genetic algorithms, simulated annealing or other similar optimization …

Design of Fixed Beamformers Based on Vector‐Sensor Arrays

M Hawes, W Liu - International Journal of Antennas and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Vector‐sensor arrays such as those composed of crossed dipole pairs are used as they can
account for a signal's polarisation in addition to the usual direction of arrival information …

Antenna array based positional modulation with a two-ray multi-path model

B Zhang, W Liu - 2018 IEEE 10th Sensor Array and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional directional modulation (DM) designs are based on the assumption that there is
no multi-path effect between transmitters and receivers. One problem with these designs is …