Direction finding in non-Gaussian impulsive noise environments

  • Authors:
  • Daifeng Zha;Tianshuang Qiu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

  • Venue:
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The class of alpha-stable distributions is better for modeling impulsive noise than Gaussian distribution in array signal processing. This paper briefly introduces the statistical characteristics of stable distribution and its fractional lower-order statistics, covariation and fractional-order correlation, and proposes a new minimum norm method (FOC-MinNorm) of direction finding based on the fractional-order correlation and subspace technique under alpha-stable noise conditions. We analyze the performances of the FOC-MinNorm, including the accuracy in the estimation, the capability and probability of resolution, and the pseudo peaks of the FOC-MinNorm method. The analysis is based on the assumption that the additive noise can be modeled as a complex alpha-stable process. Simulation and analysis show that the proposed method is robust in a wide range of characteristic exponent values of stable distribution. Its resolution capability and probability of resolution are better than those of the conventional second-order statistics based MinNorm algorithm and covariation based ROC-MUSIC method, furthermore, fractional-order correlation is more suitable than covariation in practical applications.