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http://dx.doi.org/10.5394/KINPR.2005.29.5.403

A Study on Spatial Smoothing Technique for Angle of Arrival Estimation of Coherent Incoming Waves  

Jeong Jung-Sik (Division of Maritime Transportation System, Mokpo National Maritime University)
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Journal of Navigation and Port Research / v.29, no.5, 2005 , pp. 403-408 More about this Journal
Abstract
The techniques of estimating angle of arrival(AOA) have played a key role for enhancement of wireless communications using array antennas. Among those techniques, the superresolution algorithms, such as MUSIC and ESPRIT, calculate the covariance matrix of the array output vectors which are observed at the array antennas, and then by using eigen-decomposition of the covariance matrix, they estimate AOAs of the received signals with high accuracy. However, superresolution algorithms based eigenvalue decomposition fails to estimate AOAs under multipath environments. Under multipath environments, it is difficult to estimate AOAs of the received signals due to coherency and high-correlation. To resolve coherent signals, the covariance matrix is calculated by using the conventional spatial smoothing technique, and then the techniques based on eigen-descomposition is applied. The result of the conventional spatial smoothing technique, however, is obtained at the cost of losing effective spatial aperture. Moreover, the conventional technique ignores any information in the cross-correlations of the array outputs the subarrays. As the result, the performance for AOA estimation is degraded. In this paper, we propose a new spatial smoothing technique, which consider the cross-correlation for subarrays. By computer simulation, the AOA estimation performance of the proposed method is compared with the conventional method and evaluated.
Keywords
Coherent signal; AOA; Spatial smoothing; Multipath propagation; MUSIC;
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