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Frequency-Invariant Beamforming with Real FIR-Filters View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Siberian Federal University Digital Repository Frequency-Invariant Beamforming with Real FIR-filters Alexey A. Erokhin Evgeniy R. Gafarov Yury P. Salomatov Institute of Engineering Physics and Institute of Engineering Physics and Institute of Engineering Physics and Radio Electronics Radio Electronics Radio Electronics Siberian Federal University Siberian Federal University Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—Frequency-invariant arrays are widely used in Thus, to prevent this, it is possible to use fixed communication systems, audio processing and radar. For this beamforming techniques. Fixed beamformers are arrays applications wideband beam steering with FIR-filters is which characteristics are constant and are not dependent on required. The paper presents a fixed frequency-invariant received signal. Such antenna arrays provide lower signal-to- beamforming method. Proposed method allows beam steering noise ratio in interference environments than adaptive ones. and it does not require minimizing functions or the Fourier Nevertheless, fixed beamformers are simpler to implement transform. The proposed approach is based on the usage of since there is no need for real-time calculations of weight frequency properties of arrays and allows finding real coefficients. coefficients of FIR-filters. In this paper, we propose a fixed frequency-invariant Keywords—frequency-invariant beamformer, antenna array, beamforming technique without solving minimization fixed beamforming, FIR-filter, wideband antenna array problem and a Fourier transform. This technique is based on frequency characteristics of the antenna array. I. INTRODUCTION Frequency-invariant beamforming is widely used in The paper is organized as follows: Section II briefly various areas, like wireless communication, radar, audio introduces general principles of wideband beamforming, processing [1]-[4]. Therefore, nowadays frequency-invariant Section III shows a technic of frequency-invariant beam beamforming is researched extensively. steering, in Section IV we introduce a proposed method, and Section V includes some concluding remarks about the To achieve wideband characteristics of an array, it is proposed method. necessary to use filters with finite impulse response (FIR- filters) [2], [5] that implement frequency dependent weight II. WIDE-BAND BEAMFORMING vector. Some techniques of frequency-invariant beamforming Consider a uniform linear antenna array of N isotropic are based on usage of additional array elements [2], [6]. It elements. The beam pattern of delay-and-sum beamformer in should be noted that these methods are equivalent (i.e. in both direction θ at frequency f is cases we should to form frequency dependent weight vector). Some of these techniques are based on a minimization N problem solution [5], [6] and the other ones are required a F ()fvjff,exp2,θ=* ( − πτ ) =vdH () θ, nn Fourier transform [7]-[9]. n=1 Frequency-invariant beamforming has been studied quite T widely. Circular antenna arrays are used in frequency- = where v vv12 vN is the weight vector, invariant beamforming [4]. In [10], beamforming with −πτ −πτ T ()θ= jf2 2 jf2 N circular array based on beam pattern approximation is d fe,1 e is the array response developed. Also, in [11], a circular beamformer based on vector, τ is the propagation delay from first element to mth linear programming with a two-dimensional constraint is n H proposed. In [12], beamforming technic without temporal element, which is a function of the angle θ, symbol (•) denote filtering is considered. A uniformly spaced three-dimensional Hermitian transpose and bold symbols denote vectors and array used to achieve frequency-invariant properties. Some matrices. authors have proposed a method in which there are no Fig. 1 shows a beam pattern of a narrow-band uniform additional elements or FIR-filters. So, in [6], [13] a method linear antenna array of N = 16 elements. The main lobe which involve decrease a number of array elements by using direction is θ0 = 40° at the center frequency of the normalized the concept of co-arrays is considered. frequency band f0 / fmax = 0.5. The distance between adjacent Moreover, adaptive techniques like minimum variance elements is the half wavelength at the high frequency. As can distortionless response (MVDR), linearly constrained be seen from this figure, as the frequency varies the main lobe minimum variance (LCMV), generalized sidelobe canceler changes direction. This is the reason that narrow-band (GSC) and other can be applied to frequency-invariant beamforming with a constant coefficient for each antenna beamforming [1], [2], [6], [14]-[16]. These entire can provide element will not work effectively in a wideband. some advantages but it makes computational complexity very high especially in cases when large antenna arrays are used. XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/$XX.00 ©20XX IEEE ω= π The elements of a weight vector must be different for where 2 f fs is normalized frequency. different frequencies for wideband beamforming. Therefore, we can write its expression as a function of frequency This pattern is a double Fourier transform of the FIR-filter impulse responses. In addition, it is a frequency dependent T function. FIR-filters provides the required frequency ()= () () () . v f vf12 vf vN f response. III. BEAM STEERING WITH FIR-FILTERS 0 To perform beam steering in antenna array, it is necessary -10 to form a linear phase shift. It can be obtained using FIR-filters -20 with a different slope of the frequency response in each ), dB), θ -30 , f channel of the antenna array. Moreover, the phase shift ( -40 F between the array elements should be such that the beam -50 -60 pattern is steered in one direction at all frequencies of the 0,2 range. f 0,4 /f Impulse response of a bandpass FIR-filter with an arbitrary m 0,6 a phase shift described by the following expression [17] x 0,8 60 80 1,0 0 20 40 -80 -60 -40 -20 θ −Δ ω − −Δ ω , ° sin()mm21 sin () = , (1) wm Fig. 1. Beam pattern of a narrowband array. ()m −Δ π where mM=1,2,..., , M is a filter length (the number of Ts Ts impulse response coefficients), Δ is a positive number, it sets ω ω the phase shift, and 1 , 2 are normalized frequencies. w1,1 w1,2 w1,M-1 w1,M + + + 1,0 Ts Ts 0,5 w 0,0 w2,1 w2,2 w2,M-1 w2,M -0,5 30 + + + -1,0 25 y 14 20 + 12 15 10 8 10 m n 6 4 5 2 Ts Ts Fig. 3. Impulse responses. wN,1 wN,2 wN,M-1 wN,M 0 + + + -10 -20 ), dB), Fig. 2. Wideband antenna array. θ -30 , f ( -40 Frequency dependent weights in antenna arrays can be F -50 obtained using FIR-filters. It perform temporal filtering and -60 form a frequency-dependent weight vector. The scheme of the 0,2 f 0,4 frequency-invariant beamforming is shown in Fig. 2. In this /f m 0,6 case, we can write weights in the following form: a x 0,8 40 60 80 1,0 -20 0 20 M -80 -60 -40 f θ ° vf()=−π wexp jm 2 , , nnm , m=1 fs Fig. 4. Frequency-invariant beam steering. where fs is a sampling rate. Let us consider a uniform linear antenna array like in a previous section but now we will use FIR-filters with number Next, we can write the beam pattern of coefficients M = 32 after each array element. It is possible to set Δ so that main lobe direction is θ0 = 40°. The NM coefficients of FIR-filters for beam steering in a wide F ()fwjmjf,expexp2θ= ( − ω )( − πτ ), nm, n frequency band are shown in the Fig. 3. It is clear that the nm==11 impulse responses are very similar but they have different delays. They are caused by main lobe steering. The steered beam pattern is shown in Fig. 4. Half power frequencies. At high frequencies, the active zone contains a beam width on high and low frequencies are different. Main smaller part of the frequency responses with high gain. Thus, lobe becomes narrow at the high frequency but it direction is both at high and at low frequencies, the aperture of the antenna constant. array is used inefficiently. This is the result of a frequency- invariant beamforming. IV. FREQUENCY-INVARIANT BEAM STEERING WITH FIR- FILTERS Fig. 7 shows the resulting beam pattern, it has frequency- independent properties. According to the frequency responses To keep a constant beam width in a frequency band, it is shown in Fig. 6, at low frequencies, main lobe has very large necessary to hold the electrical length of the antenna array. beam width. When frequency is increasing, it is necessary to reduce the physical size of the antenna array. Let us write the expression to determine the half-power beam width of the linear antenna array with a uniform 0,8 amplitude distribution [1] 0,6 0,4 w 0.886λ 0,2 2θ= , 0.5 −θ 0,0 dN()1cos 0 30 -0,2 25 14 20 where θ is main lobe direction, d is distance between adjacent 12 15 0 10 8 10 m elements and λ is wavelength. According to the expression 6 5 n 4 2 dN()−1 is array length. Fig. 5. Impulse responses for frequency-invariant beamforming. From the expression above, it is possible to find the upper cutoff frequencies of FIR-filters necessary to obtain a half- power beam width 2θ0.5 for a given number of element n 0 -10 0.886c f = , n ), dB -20 dn()−θ12 cos θ f 0.5 0 ( n v -30 f -40 ω=πn 2 n , (2) 2 f 0,2 s 0,4 2 f/f 0,6 6 4 max 0,8 10 8 1,0 12 where c is propagation velocity of an electromagnetic wave in 16 14 n free space.
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