摘要 |
A beamforming processor (133) determines responses for transmit elements (109-115) and receive elements (125-131) for each antenna elements (101-107) of an antenna array. A channel response processor (205) estimates a channel response for each propagation channel between one of the plurality of antenna elements (101-107) and a remote station in response to a signal received from the remote station. A receive compensation processor (207) compensates the channel responses for the receive elements (125-131) but not the transmit elements (109-115). An Eigen beamforming processor (209) then executes an Eigen beamforming algorithm based on the compensated channel responses. The resulting beamform weights are then compensated for the response of the transmit elements (109-115) in a transmit compensation processor (211). By using a separated two stage compensation for responses of the receive elements (125-131) and the transmit elements (109-115), improved beamforming based on Eigen beamforming can be achieved. |