Antenna Design detailed syllabus for Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ECE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Communication Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ECE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to ECE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of antenna design is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ANTENNA ARRAY FUNDAMENTALS 6 Linear arrays: Two element and Uniform N element array – Array weighting: Beam steered and weighted arrays – Circular arrays – Rectangular planar arrays – Fixed beam arrays – Butler Matrices – Fixed sidelobe cancelling – Retrodirective arrays: Passive and active retrodirective arrays.
Unit II
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Unit III
ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION 6 Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra: Vector basics – Matrix basics – Array Correlation Matrix – AOA Estimation Methods: Bartlett AOA estimate, Capon AOA estimate, Linear prediction AOA estimate, Maximum entropy AOA estimate, Pisarenko harmonic decomposition AOA estimate, Min-norm AOA estimate, MUSIC AOA estimate, Root-MUSIC AOA estimate, ESPRIT AOA estimate
Unit IV
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Unit V
SMART ANTENNAS: ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING 6 Adaptive Beamforming: Least mean squares, Sample matrix inversion, Recursive least squares, Constant modulus, Least squares constant modulus, Conjugate gradient method, Spreading sequence array weights, Description of the new SDMA receiver.
Practical Exercises:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- Describe the basics of phased array antennas
- Understand random process and its application in Smart antennas
- Estimate the weights of the antenna array based on the angle of arrival
- Analyze the fixed weight beamforming in smart antennas
- Analyze adaptive beamforming in smart antennas
Text Books:
- Frank Gross, Smart antennas for wireless communications, McGra-Hill, 2006.
- S. Chandran, Adaptive antenna arrays, trends and applications, Springer, 2009.
Reference Books:
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