A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing

Reconstructing the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix instead of searching for the optimal diagonal loading factor for the sample covariance matrix is a good method for calculating the adaptive beamforming coefficients. However, when the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) and the number of the inte...

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Main Authors: Yuguan Hou, Hefu Gao, Qinghong Huang, Jinzi Qi, Xingpeng Mao, Cunfeng Gu
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Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8736741/
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author Yuguan Hou
Hefu Gao
Qinghong Huang
Jinzi Qi
Xingpeng Mao
Cunfeng Gu
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Hefu Gao
Qinghong Huang
Jinzi Qi
Xingpeng Mao
Cunfeng Gu
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description Reconstructing the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix instead of searching for the optimal diagonal loading factor for the sample covariance matrix is a good method for calculating the adaptive beamforming coefficients. However, when the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) and the number of the interferences are unknown and the steering vector has an error, the reconstructed interference-plus-noise covariance matrix might not be accurate, which degrades the performance of adaptive beamforming. Here, we propose a robust Capon beamforming approach, which is suited to the sparse array with the array steering error and the unknown interference DOAs. In particular, by drawing a modified optimization problem and the mean shift model of the interference covariance matrix, we propose the robust beamforming with the importance resampling based compressive covariance sensing, which is shown to outperform the classical beamforming method based on reconstructing the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix. The key to our approach is the new solution of the reconstructing method and the important functions. The excellent performance of the proposed approach for interference suppression is demonstrated via a number of numerical examples.
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spelling doaj.art-9e59093ec96e49f5932c190c58d221a62022-12-21T23:08:06ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-017804788049010.1109/ACCESS.2019.29230658736741A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance SensingYuguan Hou0Hefu Gao1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-9793Qinghong Huang2Jinzi Qi3Xingpeng Mao4Cunfeng Gu5School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaShanghai Electro-Mechanical Engineering Institute, Shanghai, ChinaReconstructing the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix instead of searching for the optimal diagonal loading factor for the sample covariance matrix is a good method for calculating the adaptive beamforming coefficients. However, when the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) and the number of the interferences are unknown and the steering vector has an error, the reconstructed interference-plus-noise covariance matrix might not be accurate, which degrades the performance of adaptive beamforming. Here, we propose a robust Capon beamforming approach, which is suited to the sparse array with the array steering error and the unknown interference DOAs. In particular, by drawing a modified optimization problem and the mean shift model of the interference covariance matrix, we propose the robust beamforming with the importance resampling based compressive covariance sensing, which is shown to outperform the classical beamforming method based on reconstructing the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix. The key to our approach is the new solution of the reconstructing method and the important functions. The excellent performance of the proposed approach for interference suppression is demonstrated via a number of numerical examples.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8736741/Adaptive beamformingcompressive covariance sensingsparse antenna arrayimportance resampling
spellingShingle Yuguan Hou
Hefu Gao
Qinghong Huang
Jinzi Qi
Xingpeng Mao
Cunfeng Gu
A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing
IEEE Access
Adaptive beamforming
compressive covariance sensing
sparse antenna array
importance resampling
title A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing
title_full A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing
title_fullStr A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing
title_full_unstemmed A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing
title_short A Robust Capon Beamforming Approach for Sparse Array Based on Importance Resampling Compressive Covariance Sensing
title_sort robust capon beamforming approach for sparse array based on importance resampling compressive covariance sensing
topic Adaptive beamforming
compressive covariance sensing
sparse antenna array
importance resampling
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8736741/
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