Open AccessWhite Noise Array Gain for Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Beamforming With Fractional Lower Order Covariance
Author(s) -
Aimin Song
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 127
ISSN - 2169-3536
DOI - 10.1109/access.2018.2881206
Subject(s) - aerospace , bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , engineering profession , fields, waves and electromagnetics , general topics for engineers , geoscience , nuclear engineering , photonics and electrooptics , power, energy and industry applications , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation
In this paper, a special property of the fractional lower order covariance (FLOC)-based minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer is found, which is the FLOC MVDR beamformer that has greater white noise array gain (WNAG) than the classic MVDR beamformer in the presence of non-Gaussian stable noise. In order to explain the reason, the analytic WNAG of the FLOC MVDR beamformer is derived with respect to eigenvalues of FLOC matrix. Then, it is theoretically proved and explained through the relation between the WNAG and the eigenvalue separation of the covariance matrix and the reason can be concluded that the eigenvalue separation of the FLOC-based matrix is weaker than that of conventional covariance. Simulation results verify the validity and advantages of the FLOC MVDR beamformer over the MVDR beamformer when the received array noise obeys stable distributions and there exist steering vector mismatches in the beamforming model.
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