A robust adaptive beamforming framework with beampattern shaping constraints

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2198-2203

  Nai, S E ^a   Ser, W ^a   Yu, Z L ^b   Rahardja, S ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Array signal processing; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; APPLICATION PROBLEMS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM FORMERS; BEAM PATTERN; DIRECTIONS OF ARRIVAL; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ROBUSTNESS; SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION; SIDELOBE CONTROL; STEERING DIRECTION;

BEAMFORMING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 68049111685     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2021971     Document Type: Article

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