The adaptive beamformers often suffer severe performance degradation when there exist uncertainties in the steering vector of interest. In this paper, we develop a new approach to robust adaptive beamforming in the presence of an unknown signal steering vector. Based on the observed data, we try to estimate an equivalent directionof-arrival (DOA) for each sensor, in which all factors causing th...

For direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in the threshold region, it has been shown that use of Random Matrix Theory (RMT) eigensubspace estimates provides significant improvement in MUSIC performance. Here we investigate whether these RMT methods can also improve the threshold performance of unconditional (stochastic) maximum likelihood DOA estimation (MLE).

In antenna array applications, the propagation environment is often more complicated than the ordinary assumption of plain wavefronts. Here, a low complexity algorithm is suggested for estimating both the DOA and the spread angle of a mobile source subject to local scattering, using a uniform linear array. The parameters are calculated from the estimates obtained using a standard algorithm such...

If the direction of arrival (DOA) of a source is perturbed due to some reasons in a statistical way as in the environment of wireless mobile communications, a new model appropriate for such environment should be used instead of the point source model. In this paper, an angle-perturbed source model is proposed and an estimation method based on the eigen-decomposition technique is investigated un...

This paper presents multipath characteristics of non-specular scattering from building surface roughness. Superresolution method was applied as an approach to handle signal parameters (DOA, TOA) of the individual incoming waves reflected from building surface roughness. In order to comprehend in detail the microscopic mechanisms of scattering, signal parameters are to be incorporated into the g...

6.1 Spectral Estimation Methods 6.1.1 Bartlett Method 6.2 Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Estimator 6.3 Linear Prediction Method 6.4 Maximum Entropy Method 6.5 Maximum Likelihood Method 6.6 Eigenstructure Methods 6.7 MUSIC Algorithm 6.7.1 Spectral MUSIC 6.7.2 Root-MUSIC 6.7.3 Constrained MUSIC 6.7.4 Beam Space MUSIC 6.8 Minimum Norm Method 6.9 CLOSEST Method 6.10 ESPRIT Method 6.11 Wei...

One of the important issues in many of array systems such as Radar, Sonar, Mobile, and satellite telecommunications is the estimation of DOA of narrowband received signal. CRB is very important in evaluation of parameter estimation. CRB is the lower bound estimation error variance for any unbiased estimation. In this paper, the array antenna with equal distance arrays is extended in two separat...

Plane-wave DOA estimation techniques yield biased estimates of source bearing angles in the ocean due to the multimode nature of acoustic propagation in an oceanic waveguide. Bearing estimation using matched 5eld processing requires either a computationally expensive three-dimensional search or a priori knowledge of the source ranges and depths. A new subspace-based high-resolution bearing esti...

To improve the quality of the mobile reception of DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting on Terrestrial networks) signal, the knowledge of the propagation channel characteristics is necessary. In this aim, this paper presents sounding methods and results for the estimation of Direction of Arrival (DoA) of DVB-T signals in mobile receiving configuration. The mobile passive sounder is presented, inclu...