Systolic MVDR Beamforming with Inverse Updating
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In this report, a stable alternative is described for the `standard' systolic MVDR beamforming algorithm of McWhirter and Shepherd, which is known to su er from numerical instability. The alternative algorithm is similar to covariance-type recursive least squares algorithms, and is therefore readily implemented on an RLS systolic array.
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تاریخ انتشار 1993