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Convolutional neural network for 2D adaptive beamforming of phased array antennas with robustness to array imperfections

International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies • 2021
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Authors Tarek Sallam, Ahmed M Attiya
Keywords Not Available
Journal International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Volume 13
Issue 10
Pages 1096-1102
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
Abstract
Achieving robust and fast two-dimensional adaptive beamforming of phased array antennas is a challenging problem due to its high-computational complexity. To address this problem, a deep-learning-based beamforming method is presented in this paper. In particular, the optimum weight vector is computed by modeling the problem as a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is trained with I/O pairs obtained from the optimum Wiener solution. In order to exhibit the robustness of the new technique, it is applied on an 8 × 8 phased array antenna and compared with a shallow (non-deep) neural network namely, radial basis function neural network. The results reveal that the CNN leads to nearly optimal Wiener weights even in the presence of array imperfections.