Robust beamforming via worst-case SINR maximization

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1539-1547

  Kim, Seung Jean ^a   Magnani, Alessandro ^b   Mutapcic, Almir ^a   Boyd, Stephen P ^a   Luo, Zhi Quan ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Adchemy Inc   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Convex optimization; Robust beamforming; Signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR)

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING; ROBUST BEAMFORMING; SIGNAL-TO-INTRFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIO;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 41849084169     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.911498     Document Type: Article

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