Robust Digital Retrodirective Beamforming Technique for Multipath Channel Environment

In this paper, we describe the effect of temporal and spatial focusing obtained by using the digital retrodirective beamforming (DRDB) system and analyze BER performance of DRDB in multipath channel. There is a problem with reception performance degraded due to inter symbol interference (ISI) in multipath channel. In order to reduce ISI, the existing communication system use complex equalizer. In order to reduce ISI, we propose a DRDB system which can retransmit data information toward direction as the received signal without any prior information. Also, we explain ISI mitigation by temporal and spatial focusing of the proposed system. Simulation results show that the proposed system has better BER performance than that without DRDB because of ISI mitigation effect in multipath channel environment. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.