Robust adaptive beamforming based on steering vector estimation with as little as possible prior information

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2974-2987

  Khabbazibasmenj, Arash ^a   Vorobyov, Sergiy A ^a   Hassanien, Aboulnasr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Output power maximization; Quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP); Robust adaptive beamforming (RAB); Semi definite programming (SDP) relaxation; Steering vector estimation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; OUTPUT POWER; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; SEMI-DEFINITE PROGRAMMING; STEERING VECTOR;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84861170089     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2189389     Document Type: Article

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