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In this paper, a novel antenna decoupling approach is investigated. The introduced concept is based on expelling the currents flowing between the closely spaced antennas through a tapered slot etched on the array ground plane. The method is free from extra-reactive components and transmission lines. Although they are closely spaced and strongly coupled, the technique allows a high improvement in port isolation. A practical implementation of this mechanism is applied to a monopole array of two elements working at 2.45 GHz and closely packed ($0.069\lambda _{0}$). The obtained results are very attractive, and a decoupling of about 40 dB is achieved with good impedance matching. Moreover, radiation diversity is obtained with a gain of 1.9 dBi. Furthermore, the decoupled array is integrated in a real receiving system, and the proposed decoupling technique is checked through the array signal processing. Hence, the obtained results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed decoupling mechanism. In addition to its efficient port isolation, the most attractive features of the proposed decoupling technique are simplicity and ease of implementation in compact multiantenna devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution addresses the problem of estimating the parameters of multicomponent polynomial-phase signals when impinging on a multisensor array. An original approach is proposed based on a state-space modelization of the signal and the application of an extended Kalman filter for the state estimation. The use of a multisensor array allows the exploitation of a spatial information and leads to the consideration of multiple filters with different observation equations. Computer simulations are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]