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Team 2002 Final Presentation Uniform Linear Array Implementation using Software Defined Radios Evan Faulkner, David Sanabria, Sydney Wells Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation Faculty Advisor: Dr. Anwar

Background Underwater communication has numerous applications [1] ● The most common solution is to use acoustics [1] ● The underwater acoustic channel presents several challenges [2] ● Beamforming is one of many viable strategies to combat these issues [3] ●

Peter Willett. ECE 6123 Advanced Signal Processing. Lecture Notes, “Spectral Estimation.” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Fall 2017.

Project Goals ● Develop the capability to prototype a Uniform Linear Array (ULA) on a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform in a lab environment ● Demonstrate the ability to steer transmissions and receptions using multiple hydrophone elements ● Evaluate beamforming capability using SDR hardware and wired connections

Design Considerations ● Beamformer design Time domain vs. frequency domain beamforming ○ ○ Element spacing Number of elements ○ ○ Windowing Steering and Nulling ○ ● SDR Implementation ○ Must run in real time ○ Ettus X310 supports 2 TX channels or 4 RX channels

Hardware ● Provided by MITRE ● Two Ettus X310 USRP software defined radios to send and receive real signals ○ Two wide-bandwidth daughterboards slots C++/Python driver support ○ Two UDOO x86 boards to operate as ● Host Computers ○ Windows, Linux, and Android compatible

Technical Solution Phase 1 MATLAB development of beamforming capability in simulated channels ○ AWGN and Stojanovic channels adapted for use with arrays Custom time domain and ○ frequency domain beamformers ○ Testing beamformers for transmission and reception of QPSK signals over AWGN and Stojanovic acoustic channels

Technical Solution Phase 2 Creation of a beamforming application for Ettus X310 SDRs ○ C++ development ○ 2 element transmitter arrays, 4 element receiver arrays Adjustable parameters for windowing, number of elements, sampling rate ○ ○ Unit testing to verify performance is as expected under a range of operating conditions ○ Testing transmitter and receiver beamforming over simulated channels Multi-in Multi-out (MIMO) transmission and reception with USRPs ○

Beamforming Class ● A beamforming class was developed in C++ A beamformer object is instantiated with the desired geometry ● Methods for transmission and reception in any direction have been developed ● ○ High sampling rates are assumed allowing use of integer sample delays ○ Transmission takes a single input and generates multiple transmission vectors Reception takes multiple received vectors and outputs a single steered ○ reception vector ● Arbitrary weights can be applied across the array with built-in normalization of the weight vector

Beamforming Results

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RACI Chart Evan Sydney David MITRE Dr. Anwar R R R A I Matlab Development R R I A I Beamforming R I R A I Rician/Autoregressive Channel I R R A I C++ SDR Development R R R A I Acoustic Communications Research I I I R I Stojanovic Acoustic Channel R R R C A Reports and Presentations

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