(Elsevier, 2023) Biurrun Quel, Carlos; Río Bocio, Carlos del; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren
In this work, we identify that the analysis in terms of noise of multibeam passive beam forming networks requires a proper formulation, in order not to overestimate the noise generated by the network. We show that the inherent spatial diversity offered by this type of networks results in an improvement of the SNR, similar to the one obtained by digital architectures, with a penalty due to the insertion loss. To illustrate this phenomena, two generalized equivalent circuits are proposed are a numerical example is presented.
