Title
Source enumeration in a correlated signal environment
Abstract
The authors present a simple method for determining the number of signals impinging on a uniform linear array that is applicable even in the extreme case of fully correlated signals. This technique uses what they term modified rank sequences, which is a modification of the construction implicit in the matrix decomposition method of Di (1981). They prove that if a particular rank sequence stabilizes (the last two terms of the sequence are equal) to a value strictly less then the common row size of the defining block matrices, then this value equals the number of signals, provided that the number of signals has not exceeded a Bresler-Macovski (1986) type bound. Using the above characterization of stability, they formulate an algorithm that either determines the number of signals or indicates that the resolution capability of the algorithm has been exceeded. They also provide theorems that show that under certain conditions, a rank sequence can stabilize to a value strictly less than the number of signals. This result allows them to find simple counterexamples to all of the existing rank sequence methods
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1109/78.275604
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
signal detection,parameter estimation,theorems,matrix decomposition,covariance matrix,resolution,stability
Discrete mathematics,Signal processing,Combinatorics,Mathematical optimization,Detection theory,Matrix (mathematics),Matrix decomposition,Decomposition method (constraint satisfaction),Covariance matrix,Estimation theory,Counterexample,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
2
1053-587X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
2.05
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John H. Cozzens16211.08
Michael J. Sousa2142.05