MVDR adaptive sidelobes: Extending Ruze's formula and providing an exact calculation of the probability of sidelobe suppression

Proceedings of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 73-76

  Richmond, C D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Adaptive filters; Apertures; Distribution functions; Interference suppression; Laboratories; Least squares approximation; Probability density function; Signal to noise ratio; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BEAMFORMING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LABORATORIES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER; APERTURES; CONTOUR INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; MODIFIED BESSEL FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 0038100982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2151870X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAM.2000.877971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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