Beamforming Design and Optimization for a MIMO system for Planes and Drones

Our project goal is to design a simulation for the performance, primarily from the signal processing perspective, of a communication system that transmits WiFi to eight different aircraft in a given aircraft. In our project we calibrate for errors in phase and gain that arise from hardware inconsistencies by estimating the error and thermal noise. We then must shape our beams in order to minimize the interference each beam observes from the other beams. This is because they are all using the same carrier frequency. We also are designing an over the air real time calibration method that will be able to calibrate for hardware errors that arise over time due to deterioration.