Distributed Processing of a Fractal Array Beamformer

• DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.2046
• Publication Date: 2014-01-29T11:13:41Z
• Authors: P. Karagiannakis; K. Thompson; J. Corr; I.K. Proudler; S. Weiss
• Keywords: Array Processing; Fractal antenna

Fractals have been proven as potential candidates for satellite flying formations, where its different elements represent a thinned array.The distributed and low power nature of the nodes in this network motivates processing when using such an array beamformer.This paper proposes initial idea, demonstrates that benefits strictly limited local capability independent array's dimension calibration can be bought at expense slightly increased overall cost.