Robust adaptive beamforming using sequential quadratic programming: An iterative solution to the mismatch problem

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 15, Issue , 2008, Pages 733-736

  Hassanien, Aboulnasr ^a   Vorobyov, Sergiy A ^a,b   Wong, Kon Max ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Array signal processing; Mathematical programming; Parameter estimation; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ESTIMATION PROCESS; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; MISMATCH PROBLEMS; NEW APPROACHES; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ROBUSTNESS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STEERING VECTOR; WORST-CASE PERFORMANCE;

BEAMFORMING; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 67650173864     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2001115     Document Type: Article

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