Robust beamforming with combined worst-case performance optimization and soft constraints in a multipath environment

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 583-586

  Yu, Lei ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Langley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SIGNALS; DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPATH SIGNALS; ROBUST BEAMFORMING; SOFT CONSTRAINT; WORST-CASE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84863763076     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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