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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R22575/01
Title:	Subband Adaptive Beamforming
Principal Investigator:	Weiss, Dr S
Other Investigators:	Stewart, Professor R Hanzo, Professor L
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Department:	Electronics and Computer Science
Organisation:	University of Southampton
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	19 December 2001	Ends:	18 December 2003	Value (£):	64,588
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Digital Signal Processing RF & Microwave Technology
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Electronics
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Beamforming techniques find versatile applications such as sonar and mobile communications, whereby their use in the later is mandatory for third and fourth generation systems for better exploitation of the available bandwidth. The proposed research programme is concerned with the application of subband schemes to broadband adaptive beamforming in order to attain better system performance, particularly for beamforming with high spatial and temporal resolution where the required number of sensors and large filter dimension of the beamformer sets very high computational burdens. Based on some initial work and experience with subband adaptive systems in other application areas, it is anticipated that the subband approach brings several advantages, including foremost a decrease in computational complexity and faster convergence of adaptive beamforming algorithms.The proposed research encompasses structural and algorithmic investigations with regard to subband adaptive beamforming (SABF), the evaluation of performance limitations of SABF and the subsequent system design, if given system and performance specifications have to be fulfilled. In simulations with sonar and communications data, the characterstics and robustness of the proposed SABF schemes will be tested. Further, links with related research areas such as multichannel adaptive filtering and equalisation will be explored.
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