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http://dx.doi.org/10.12673/jant.2016.20.4.367

Improved Direction of Arrival Estimation Based on Coprime Array and Propagator Method by Noise Power Spectral Density Estimation  

Byun, Bu-Guen (Department of Electronic, Information, and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Yoo, Do-Sik (Department of Electronic, Information, and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Abstract
We propose an improved direction of arrival (DoA) estimation algorithm based on co-prime array and propagator method. The propagator method with co-prime array does not require singular value decomposition (SVD) requiring much less computational complexity but exhibiting somewhat worse performance in comparison with MUSIC based on co-prime array. We notice that one cause of the performance degradation was in the avoidance of the usage of the diagonal elements of the signal autocorrelation matrix that contains the noise power spectral density. So we propose an algorithm with the diagonal elements of the signal autocorrelation matrix based on the fact that the noise power spectral density can be estimated using noise observation over a long period of time. We observe, through simulations, that the proposed scheme in this paper improves the performance, with 4 times more computational requirement, by signal-to-noise ratio of 1.5dB and by DoA resolution of $0.7^{\circ}$ at the detection probability of 95% compared with the previously introduced co-prime array propagator scheme, resulting in performance much closer to that of co-prime array-based MUSIC scheme.
Keywords
Direction of arrival; Coprime array; Propagator method; Non-uniform array; Multiple signal classification;
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