Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
Volume 54, Issue 12, Pages 3647-3658Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886473
Keywords
adaptive beamforming; capon beamformer conjugate gradient; constrained optimization; diagonal loading; linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamforming; moving jamming; mutual coupling; steepest descent
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Significant effort has gone into designing robust adaptive beamforming algorithms to improve robustness against uncertainties in array manifold. These uncertainties may be caused by uncertainty in direction-of-arrival (DOA), imperfect array calibration, near-far effect, mutual coupling, and other mismatch and modeling errors. A diagonal loading technique is obligatory to fulfill the uncertainty constraint where the diagonal loading level is amended to satisfy the constrained value. The major drawback of diagonal loading techniques is that it is not clear how to get the optimum value of diagonal loading level based on the recognized level of uncertainty constraint. In this paper, an alternative realization of the robust adaptive linearly constrained minimum variance beamforming with ellipsoidal uncertainty constraint on the steering vector is developed. The diagonal loading technique is integrated into the adaptive update schemes by means of optimum variable loading technique which provides loading-on-demand mechanism rather than fixed, continuous or ad hoc loading. We additionally enrich the proposed robust adaptive beamformers by imposing a cooperative quadratic constraint on the weight vector norm to overcome noise enhancement at low SNR. Several numerical simulations with DOA mismatch, moving jamming, and mutual coupling are carried out to explore the performance of the proposed schemes and compare their performance with other traditional and robust beamformers.
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