Target localization accuracy gain in MIMO radar-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2783-2803

  Godrich, Hana ^a,b   Haimovich, Alexander M ^c   Blum, Rick S ^d  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive array; Cramer Rao bound; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar; Spatial processing; Target localization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; BEST LINEAR UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CLOSED FORM; COHERENT PROCESSING; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; EFFECTIVE BANDWIDTH; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; GEOMETRIC DILUTION OF PRECISION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; MIMO RADAR; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RADARS; NON-COHERENT; PHASE REFERENCE; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL PROCESSING; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TARGET LOCATION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LOCATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; RADAR; SENSORS;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 76249112365     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2010.2046246     Document Type: Article

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