TY - JOUR
T1 - Robust adaptive beamforming using worst-case performance optimization via second-order cone programming
AU - Vorobyov, Sergiy A.
AU - Gershman, Alex B.
AU - Luo, Zhi Quan
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - If the desired signal is present in training snapshots, the adaptive array performance is known to be quite sensitive even to slight mismatches between the presumed and actual signal steering vectors. Such mismatches can occur as a result of environmental nonstationarities, look direction errors, imperfect array calibration or distorted antenna shape, as well as distortions caused by medium inhomogeneities, near-far mismatch, source spreading, and local scattering. The similar type of performance degradation can occur when the signal steering vector is known exactly but the training sample size is small. In this paper, we develop a new approach to robust adaptive beamforming in the presence of an arbitrary unknown signal steering vector mismatch. Our approach is based on the optimization of worst-case performance using Second-Order Cone (SOC) programming. The adaptive beamformer proposed is shown to have a substantially improved robustness as compared to existing algorithms and enjoy simple implementation.
AB - If the desired signal is present in training snapshots, the adaptive array performance is known to be quite sensitive even to slight mismatches between the presumed and actual signal steering vectors. Such mismatches can occur as a result of environmental nonstationarities, look direction errors, imperfect array calibration or distorted antenna shape, as well as distortions caused by medium inhomogeneities, near-far mismatch, source spreading, and local scattering. The similar type of performance degradation can occur when the signal steering vector is known exactly but the training sample size is small. In this paper, we develop a new approach to robust adaptive beamforming in the presence of an arbitrary unknown signal steering vector mismatch. Our approach is based on the optimization of worst-case performance using Second-Order Cone (SOC) programming. The adaptive beamformer proposed is shown to have a substantially improved robustness as compared to existing algorithms and enjoy simple implementation.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0036295131
SN - 1520-6149
VL - 3
SP - III/2901-III/2904
JO - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
JF - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
T2 - 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing
Y2 - 13 May 2002 through 17 May 2002
ER -