Adaptive uncertainty based iterative robust capon beamformer using steering vector mismatch estimation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4483-4488

  Lie, Joni Polili ^a   Ser, Wee ^a   See, Chong Meng Samson ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

adaptive arrays; Array signal processing; iterative methods; parameter estimation; robustness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; GEOMETRICAL INTERPRETATION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; ROBUST CAPON BEAMFORMER; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE AND NOISE RATIOS; SIMULATION RESULT; STEERING VECTOR; STEERING VECTOR MISMATCHES;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; ESTIMATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPHERES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051754858     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2157500     Document Type: Article

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