US-T-W
Adaptive Antenna Arrays for Military Communications
Bakhru, Kesh ORGANIZER: Bakhru, Kesh
This session presents papers that describe the development of algorithms using adaptive arrays in improving the performance of military communications for example in direction of arrival estimation of a desired signal or interference mitigation in a spread spectrum system. The use of adaptive arrays in cooperative networks for relaying messages is discussed. Design of small antennas for body wearable applications is described.
Kesh Bakhru received the B.S. degree with honors and the M.S. degree in physics from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. M.S. (EE) degree from Columbia University in New York and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N.Y. His career spans over the last fifty years starting with research design and development of digital computers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India. For the past thirty years he has been with the Cubic Defense Applications in San Diego, California where he is presently a senior research scientist involved in internal research and development activities. His current research interests are in the analysis and design of communication systems using spread spectrum technology, application of high speed digital signal processing to the design of communication receivers, adaptive systems for interference mitigation and indoor position location for mobile users in military operations in urban terrain. He is also an adjunct professor at the San Diego State University teaching graduate classes in Digital Communications, Error Control and Information theory. Dr Bakhru is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Communication Theory Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society.