Time-modulation for MIMO systems — Potentials and trends

This paper presents a harmonic multi-beam pattern synthesis technique for receiving multiple signals incoming on a time-modulated array from different angular directions. The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to maximize the performances in terms of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR).

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