Robust response control for adaptive beamformers against arbitrary array imperfections

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2234-2245

  Yu, Zhu Liang ^a,b,c   Ser, Wee ^b,c   Er, Meng Hwa ^b,c   Gu, Zhenghui ^a,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive array; Constraints on magnitude response; Linear programming; Robust adaptive beamforming; Second order cone optimization; Spectral factorization; Worst case optimization

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DEFECTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FACTORIZATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; MAGNITUDE RESPONSE; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; SECOND-ORDER CONE OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRAL FACTORIZATION; WORST-CASE OPTIMIZATION;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 44649166294     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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