A novel design of a robust ten-port microwave reflectometer with autonomous calibration by using neural networks

J Monzó-Cabrera, JL Pedreño-Molina… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a novel ten-port waveguide microwave sensor is designed, implemented,
calibrated and tested in order to obtain the reflection coefficient magnitude and phase. This …

3-D aspect in the five-port technique for zero-IF receivers and a new blind calibration method

K Mabrouk, B Huyart, G Neveux - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The five-or six-port circuit uses one or two additional outputs in comparison with classical
homodyne demodulators. This paper demonstrates that the five-or six-port technique can …

A novel RF front-end architecture for multi-band transceivers

FR de Sousa, B Huyart - 2004 IEEE MTT-S International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging wireless standards have pushed researchers to look for new RF architectures
capable of operating at several frequency bands. Direct conversion between baseband and …

[PDF][PDF] An overview of direction-of-arrival estimation using an antenna array with four elements

L Osman, I Sfar, A Gharsallah - American Journal of Applied …, 1979 - academia.edu
ABSTRACT The Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation techniques using antenna arrays are
applied in large areas of research fields and have received great attention in literature …

Application du corrélateur" Five-Port" aux PLLs, à la récupération de porteuse et à un MODEM de télécommunications dans la bande 1, 8-5, 5 Ghz

FR de Sousa - 2004 - pastel.hal.science
Résumé Le corrélateur" Five-Port" est un dispositif qui calcule précisément le rapport
complexe entre deux signaux hyperfréquences à partir de la mesure des valeurs de …

A new methodology for in situ calibration of a neural network-based software sensor for S-parameter prediction in six-port reflectometers

JL Pedreño-Molina, M Pinzolas, J Monzó-Cabrera - Neurocomputing, 2006 - Elsevier
In this work, a neural network-based software sensor is proposed for determining the
reflection coefficient from measurements obtained by a six-port reflectometer. The proposed …

Five‐port receiver with improved sensitivity

FR De Sousa, B Huyart - Microwave and Optical Technology …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports the architecture of a five‐port receiver without vector base circuit
generators in which three antennas provide three phase‐shifted copies of the received …

Design and validation of a ten-port waveguide reflectometer sensor: Application to efficiency measurement and optimization of microwave-heating ovens

JL Pedreño-Molina, J Monzó-Cabrera… - Sensors, 2008 - mdpi.com
This work presents the design, manufacturing process, calibration and validation of a new
microwave ten-port waveguide reflectometer based on the use of neural networks. This low …

A five-port reflectometer for communication receiver applications

L Sfar, L Osman, A Gharsallah - Eighth International Multi …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Well-known receiver architectures such as heterodyne receivers and homodyne receivers
usually require highly accurate component matching. In order to reduce the effort for the …

A 1.8-5.5 GHz integrated five-port front-end for wideband transceivers

FR de Sousa, B Huyart - 7th European Conference on Wireless …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Six and five-port direct conversion receivers have demonstrated being an interesting
alternative since their design is simple and they can he calibrated to operate in a wide range …