Antenna-Based Signal Fishing

The paper discusses the possibility of using a short-term, short-range fading characterization to turn a selective channel problem into a flat fading problem. By estimating or measuring the angle of arrival, phase shift, and amplitude of the incoming signal this characterization can be obtained. It is the antenna array that has the main role here. We call this proactive antenna implication, antenna-based signal fishing. We propose a block diagram for the antenna fishing system and we discuss the first experiments which involve the use of a multiple-input adaptive combiner-equalizer.