Beamforming Using Passive Nested Arrays of Sensors
- Creators
- Pal, Piya
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Vaidyanathan, P. P.
Abstract
A novel approach to beamforming using a new class of sensor arrays is proposed, which can increase the achievable degrees of freedom significantly beyond the conventional limits obtained from uniform linear arrays (ULA). This class of arrays is named as "nested arrays" since they are obtained by nesting two or more ULAs with increasing inter-sensor spacing. Using the second order statistics of the signal received by such an array in a novel way, it is possible to perform beamforming with O(N^2) degrees of freedom using only O(N) physical elements. This kind of beamforming will be shown to be essentially non linear in nature and theoretically, it is capable of nulling the effect of noise provided enough snapshots are available.
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© 2011 IEEE. Issue Date: May 30 2010-June 2 2010; Date of Current Version: 03 August 2010. Work supported in parts by the ONR grant N00014-08-1-0709, and the California Institute of Technology.Attached Files
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- 23177
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20110330-113248959
- N00014-08-1-0709
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Caltech
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2011-03-31Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-09Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
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- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 11462789