Beamforming is a process formulated to produce the radiated beam patterns of the antennas by completely building up the processed signals in the direction of the desired terminals and cancelling beams of interfering signals. Adaptive beamforming is a key technology of smart antenna. The core is to obtain optimum weights of the antenna array by some adaptive beamforming algorithms and finally adjust the main lobe to focus on the arriving direction of the desired signal as well as suppressing the interfering signal. There are several beamforming algorithms that includes Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance (LCMV) algorithm in which Self Nulling Issue is further reduced by adding multiplier to the MCMV algorithm and it is referred as Improved LCMV (IMPLCMV). A Comparative analysis is done for different multipliers and it is found that w=0.15 gives best result with minimum interference of flat response and also self-nulling issues can be reduced.
Improved Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance Algorithm for 5G Communications System
