In order to reduce the impact of watermark embedding on the perceptual fidelity of the marked signal, watermarking systems process the generated watermark to match it to the local properties of the underlying host signal prior to embedding. However, this adaptation process could distort the watermark, affecting its robustness and information content. In this paper, a new watermark coding technique is proposed, that enables the application of some mark- nondistorting host-adaptation processing, where the intensity of the watermark could be redistributed according to the local properties of the underlying host without changing the way of interpreting the watermark to be embedded. This completely eliminates the need to equalize adaptation distortions prior to decoding, and hence, to pass any side information about the adaptation processing to the decoder, too.
Beam squint phenomenon is considered one of the most drawbacks that limit the use of (mm-waves) array antennas; which causes significant degradation in the BER of the system. In this paper, a uniform linear array (ULA) system is exemplified at millimeter (mm-waves) frequency bands to realize the effects of beam squint phenomena from different directions on an equivalent gain response to represent the channel performance in terms of bit error rate (BER). A simple QPSK passband signal model is developed and tested according to the proposed antenna array with beam squint. The computed results show that increasing the passband bandwidth and the number of antenna elements, have a significant degradation in BER at the receiver when the magnitude and phase errors caused by the beam squint at 26 GHz with various spectrum bandwidths.