Title
A Unified Array Geometry Composed of Multiple Identical Subarrays With Hole-Free Difference Coarrays for Underdetermined DOA Estimation.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a unified array geometry, dubbed generalized nested subarray (GNSA), for the underdetermined direction-of-arrival estimation. The GNSA is composed of multiple, identical subarrays, which can be a minimum redundancy array (MRA), a (super) nested array, a uniform linear array (ULA), or any other linear arrays with hole-free difference coarrays (DCAs). By properly design the spacings between subarrays, the resulting DCA of the GNSA can also be a hole-free (filled) ULA. When the subarray is an MRA and meanwhile its sensors' positions also follow an MRA configuration, a nested MRA (NMRA) is constructed. This NMRA can provide up to O((MN2)-N-2) degrees of freedom (DOFs) using only MN physical sensors. In order to fully utilize the increased DOF, we develop a new DOA estimation algorithm, which consists of a dimensional reduction matrix to exploit the data of all virtual elements, a Toeplitz matrix to decorrelate the equivalent coherent sources, and a root-MUSIC method to mitigate the computational workload. This new algorithm can achieve better DOA estimation performance than traditional spatial smoothing MUSIC algorithm with lower computational complexity. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the superiorities of the proposed array geometry in resolving more sources than sensors, DOA estimation performance, and the angular resolution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2813313
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Coprime array,difference coarray,direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation,minimum redundancy array,nested array,sensor arrays
Underdetermined system,Computer simulation,Matrix (mathematics),Computer science,Toeplitz matrix,Smoothing,Redundancy (engineering),Dimensional reduction,Geometry,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minglei Yang183.24
Alexander M. Haimovich261869.28
Xin Yuan338327.60
Lei Sun440.76
Baixiao Chen5469.81