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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2017
Qatar University, Al Tarfa, Doha, QA;
Mohamed Awadin, Plymouth Meeting, PA (US);
Ridha Hamila, Doha, QA;
Naofal Al-Dhahir, Richardson, TX (US);
Waheed U. Bajwa, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Qatar University, Al Tarfa Doha, QA;
Abstract
The method of identifying faulty antenna elements in massive uniform linear antenna arrays is a compressive sensing-based method that takes advantage of the reduction of the measurement matrix for a uniform linear antenna array to a partial discrete Fourier transform (DTF) matrix, whose rows correspond to the measurements' locations. Particularly, the method of identifying faulty antenna elements in massive uniform linear antenna arrays allows the measurements to be taken to reduce the measurement matrix's worst-case coherence, a factor which affects the detection probability of the defective antenna elements. The method constructs a measurement matrix with fewer distinct inner product values to reduce the worst-case coherence. In an alternative embodiment, the method focuses on bounding the inner product between any pair of measurement matrix columns.