On the asymptotic resolvability of two point sources in known subspace interference using a GLRT-based framework

  • Authors:

  • Mohammed Nabil El Korso;Rémy Boyer;Alexandre Renaux;Sylvie Marcos

  • Affiliations:

  • Darmstadt University of Technology, Communication Systems Group, Merckstrasse 25, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany;Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris XI (UPS), CNRS-L2S-Supélec 3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France;Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris XI (UPS), CNRS-L2S-Supélec 3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France;Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris XI (UPS), CNRS-L2S-Supélec 3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The asymptotic statistical resolution limit (SRL), denoted by @d, characterizing the minimal separation to resolve two closely spaced far-field narrowband sources for a large number of observations, among a total number of M=2, impinging on a linear array is derived. The two sources of interest (SOI) are corrupted by (1) the interference resulting from the M-2 remaining sources and by (2) a broadband noise. Toward this end, a hypothesis test formulation is conducted. Depending on the a priori knowledge on the SOI, on the interfering sources and on the noise variance, the (constrained) maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of the SRL subject to @d@?R and/or in the context of the matched subspace detector theory are derived. Finally, we show that the SRL which is the minimum separation that allows a correct resolvability for given probabilities of false alarm and of detection can always be linked to a particular form of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), called the interference CRB (I-CRB), which takes into account the M-2 interfering sources. As a by product, we give the theoretical expression of the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) required to resolve two closely spaced sources for several typical scenarios.