# Distributed Transmit Beamforming: Design and Demonstration from the Lab to UAVs

@article{Hanna2021DistributedTB,
title={Distributed Transmit Beamforming: Design and Demonstration from the Lab to UAVs},
author={Samer S. Hanna and Danijela Cabric},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications},
year={2021}
}
• Published 26 October 2021
• Computer Science
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Cooperating radios can extend their communication range by adjusting their signals to ensure coherent combining at a destination radio. This technique is called distributed transmit beamforming. Beamforming (BF) relies on the BF radios having frequency synchronized carriers and phases adjusted for coherent combining. Both requirements are typically met by exchanging preambles with the destination. However, since BF aims to increase the communication range, the individually transmitted preambles…
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