On the relationship between robust minimum variance beamformers with probabilistic and worst-case distortionless response constraints

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5719-5724

  Vorobyov, Sergiy A ^a   Chen, Haihua ^b   Gershman, Alex B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Probabilistic distortionless response constraints; Robust minimum variance beamforming

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

BEAMFORMERS; GAUSSIAN; OUTAGE PROBABILITIES; PROBABILISTIC DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE CONSTRAINTS; ROBUST MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING; ROBUST MINIMUM VARIANCES; SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAMMINGS; STEERING VECTOR MISMATCHES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 54949150297     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.929866     Document Type: Article

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