EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 68291, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/68291
Research Article

Generalized Broadband Beamforming Using a Modal Subspace Decomposition

Michael I. Y. Williams, Thushara D. Abhayapala, and Rodney A. Kennedy

Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Canberra 0200, ACT, Australia

Received 29 September 2005; Revised 29 March 2006; Accepted 1 April 2006

Academic Editor: Vincent Poor

Copyright © 2007 Michael I. Y. Williams et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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