Robust adaptive beamforming based on interference covariance matrix sparse reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Yujie Gu;Nathan A. Goodman;Shaohua Hong;Yu Li

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Adaptive beamformers are sensitive to model mismatch, especially when the desired signal is present in the training data. In this paper, we reconstruct the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix in a sparse way, instead of searching for an optimal diagonal loading factor for the sample covariance matrix. Using sparsity, the interference covariance matrix can be reconstructed as a weighted sum of the outer products of the interference steering vectors, the coefficients of which can be estimated from a compressive sensing (CS) problem. In contrast to previous works, the proposed CS problem can be effectively solved by use of a priori information instead of using l"1-norm relaxation or other approximation algorithms. Simulation results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed adaptive beamformer is almost always equal to the optimal value.