Antenna Beamforming for a 60 GHz Transceiver

All rights reserved. No section of the material protected by this copyright may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the permission from the author and Delft University of Technology. The main target of a 60 GHz transceiver system is to obtain data rates close to gigabits per second (Gbps) over short distances. The 60 GHz band suffers from severe pathloss, inter-symbol interference (ISI) and a limited link budget. In order to improve the link budget, beamforming techniques are utilized. Antenna beamforming, i.e., combining signals from multiple receive antennas is one of the crucial aspects of the 60 GHz transceiver system. Adaptive antenna arrays are considered for the beamforming. A single carrier with frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) is used for the modulation. In order to suppress the ISI, a cyclic prefix (CP) is used in SC-FDE. The effects of the physical parameters of antenna arrays on the RMS dela