Sidelobe suppression for robust capon beamforming with mainlobe-to-sidelobe power ratio maximization

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1218-1221

  Liu, Yipeng ^a,b   Wan, Qun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Robust capon beamforming; Sidelobe suppression

Indexed keywords

CONVEX PROGRAMMING;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM FORMERS; CAPON BEAMFORMER; CAPON BEAMFORMING; POWER RATIO; ROBUST CAPON BEAMFORMING; SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION; SIDELOBE LEVELS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84883381317     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2223451     Document Type: Article

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