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On the Design of Direct Radiating Antenna Arrays with Reduced Number of Controls for Satellite Communications

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Our activity has to do with the design of Direct Radiating Arrays (DRA) for satellite communications. The objective is to have a reduced number of controls in order to minimize the manufacturing and operating complexity. The DRAs will create a set of simultaneously overlapped multi-beams in the frequency range of 20 GHz and will satisfy certain specifications (End of Coverage (EOC) gain, grating and side lobe levels). Radio-Communications Laboratory (RCL) shall consider the DRA design and shall mainly optimize the geometry of the array and develop the appropriate software tool. The design methods which are going to be used are the Fractal Technique and the Orthogonal Method(OM) in conjunction with the Orthogonal Perturbation Method (OPM). Some preliminary examples are presented and show the effectiveness of the design methods.

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  1. RadioCommunications Laboratory, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Theodoros Kaifas, Katherine Siakavara, Dimitrios Babas, George Miaris, Elias Vafiadis & John N. Sahalos

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  1. University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Fabrizio Granelli

  2. Information and Communication Systems Security Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Karlovasse, Samos, Greece

    Charalabos Skianis

  3. University of Macedonia, Loggou-Tourpali, 59200, Naousa, Greece

    Periklis Chatzimisios

  4. University of Alabama, 35487-0290, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Yang Xiao

  5. Nokia Siemens Networks, St. Martin Straße 76, 81541, Munich, Germany

    Simone Redana

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Kaifas, T., Siakavara, K., Babas, D., Miaris, G., Vafiadis, E., Sahalos, J.N. (2009). On the Design of Direct Radiating Antenna Arrays with Reduced Number of Controls for Satellite Communications. In: Granelli, F., Skianis, C., Chatzimisios, P., Xiao, Y., Redana, S. (eds) Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Mobilight 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_40

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