Joint Phased-MIMO and Nested-Array Beamforming for Increased Degrees-of-Freedom. (20th May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhu, Chenglong; Chen, Hui; Shao, Huaizong
• Other Names: Hu Hang Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: International journal of antennas and propagation. Volume 2015(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-05-20
• Subjects: Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Periodicals; Antennas (Electronics) -- Periodicals; Radio wave propagation -- Periodicals; Antennes (Électronique); Ondes radioélectriques -- Propagation; Antennas (Electronics); Electronic apparatus and appliances; Radio wave propagation; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 621.382405
• DOI: 10.1155/2015/989517
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-5869

Abstract

Abstract : Phased-multiple-input multiple-output (phased-MIMO) enjoys the advantages of MIMO virtual array and phased-array directional gain, but it gets the directional gain at a cost of reduced degrees-of-freedom (DOFs). To compensate the DOF loss, this paper proposes a joint phased-array and nested-array beamforming based on the difference coarray processing and spatial smoothing. The essence is to use a nested-array in the receiver and then fully exploit the second order statistic of the received data. In doing so, the array system offers more DOFs which means more sources can be resolved. The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation performance of the proposed method is evaluated by examining the root-mean-square error. Simulation results show the proposed method has significant superiorities to the existing phased-MIMO.