Noncircularity-rate maximization: A new approach to adaptive blind beamforming

Xu Yougen*, Liu Zhiwen

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Abstract

A new adaptive beamforming scheme via NOncircularity-Rate Maximization (NORM) is presented for blind recovery of a narrowband signal with nonzero noncircularity degree (such as AM, ASK and BPSK signals). By maximizing the noncircularity rate of the output signal, this new second-order blind beamformer can directly extract the signal of interest from circular interferences and noise (both are not necessarily Gaussian) without training signal and array calibration. This NORM approach can be implemented in a completely closed form and is shown to be attractive than the customary high-order statistics (HOS) strategy for blind noncircular signal extraction in terms of computation burdens and output signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009 - Beijing, China
Duration: 24 Sept 200926 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period24/09/0926/09/09

Keywords

  • Adaptive blind beamforming
  • Array signal processing
  • Noncircularity

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