Array Correlation Matrix Element Properties and Their Application to Low-Cost DOA Estimation

Koichi ICHIGE
Yu IWABUCHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E99-B    No.8    pp.1859-1866
Publication Date: 2016/08/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2015EBP3465
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Antennas and Propagation
Keyword: 
direction of arrival estimation,  array signal processing,  correlation matrix,  

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Summary: 
We study the correlation matrix element properties in array signal processing and apply them to a Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA) estimation problem of coherent or highly-correlated sources for a Uniform Linear Array (ULA). The proposed algorithm is generally based on the relation between the elements of the array correlation matrix and does not need an eigendecomposition, iteration, or angular peak-search. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated through a computer simulation.