The effect of far-field cylindrical scatterers on radio direction finding and beamforming estimated by cylindrical array of dipoles

Abstract

Direction finding using a cylindrical array of dipoles has been implemented in presence of large cylindrical scatterers. A different number of scatterers in the simulations are used. The effect of the large cylindrical scatterers is considered by cylindrical harmonic expansion of the scattered field. These fields are computed analytically. The direction finding process is verified by a comparison with phase difference direction finding method implemented in HFSS simulator environment. The error induced in the direction finding mechanism by the scattered fields is estimated through Monte-Carlo simulations. Interfering signals are introduced and a beamforming process is implemented to evaluate the corresponding signal to interference ratios. The method alleviates the use of high computational cost simulations for scatterer effect estimation. The method could be used in wireless communication and smart antenna applications.