This thesis describes a real-time software-defined-radio implementation of the time-slotted round-trip carrier synchronization protocol in two-source and three-source communication systems. The techniques developed in this thesis can be used to synchronize the carriers of two or three single-antenna wireless transmitters with independent local oscillators so that their band-pass transmissions combine constructively at an intended receiver. Synchronization is achieved via the time-slotted transmission of (i) an unmodulated primary beacon from the destination to the sources and (ii) a series of secondary unmodulated beacons between the sources. Explicit channel state information is not exchanged between the sources and/or the destination. When synchronized, the single-antenna sources are able to cooperatively transmit as a distributed beamformer and achieve increased transmission range, reduced transmission energy, and/or increased security. The experimental results in this thesis confirm the theoretical predictions and also provide explicit guidelines for the real-time implementation of a carrier synchronization technique suitable for distributed transmit beamforming.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:wpi.edu/oai:digitalcommons.wpi.edu:etd-theses-1747 |
| Date | 05 May 2009 |
| Creators | Zhang, Boyang |
| Contributors | Andrew G. Klein, Committee Member, Donald Richard Brown III, Advisor, John A. McNeill, Committee Member |
| Publisher | Digital WPI |
| Source Sets | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Masters Theses (All Theses, All Years) |
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