Non-Coherent Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using Partly Calibrated Arrays

In this paper, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using non-coherent processing for partly calibrated arrays composed of multiple subarrays is considered. The subarrays are assumed to compute locally the sample covariance matrices of their measurements and communicate them to the processing cente...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-04
Main Authors: Suleiman, Wassim, Parvazi, Pouyan, Pesavento, Marius, Zoubir, Abdelhak M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coherence
Covariance matrix
Cramer-Rao bounds
Direction of arrival
Maximum likelihood estimators
Signal processing
Technical communication
Ultra wideband technologies
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Summary:In this paper, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using non-coherent processing for partly calibrated arrays composed of multiple subarrays is considered. The subarrays are assumed to compute locally the sample covariance matrices of their measurements and communicate them to the processing center. A sufficient condition for the unique identifiability of the sources in the aforementioned non-coherent processing scheme is presented. We prove that, under mild conditions, with the non-coherent system of subarrays, it is possible to identify more sources than identifiable by each individual subarray. This property of non-coherent processing has not been investigated before. We derive the Maximum Likelihood estimator (MLE) for DOA estimation at the processing center using the sample covariance matrices received from the subarrays. Moreover, the Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB) for our measurement model is derived and is used to assess the presented DOA estimators. The behaviour of the CRB at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is analyzed. In contrast to coherent processing, we prove that the CRB approaches zero at high SNR only if at least one subarray can identify the sources individually.
ISSN:2331-8422