Robust array beamforming with sidelobe control using support vector machines

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 574-584

  Gaudes, César C ^a,c   Santamaría, Ignacio ^b   Vía, Javier ^b   Gómez, Enrique Masgrau ^c   Sesé Paules, Talesa ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d DMR Consulting   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer; Robust beamforming; Robust Capon beamforming; Sidelobe control; Steering vector errors; Support vector machines (SVMs) for regression

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE REWEIGHTED LEAST-SQUARES; SIDELOBE CONTROL; STEERING VECTOR ERRORS;

ANTENNA LOBES; BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33847691124     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.885720     Document Type: Article

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