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The optimal beamforming design for multi-user continuous aperture array (CAPA) systems is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA), the beamformer for CAPA is a continuous function rather than a discrete vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

Quaternion models have been developed for both direction of arrival estimation and beamforming based on crossed-dipole arrays in the past. However, for almost all the models, especially for adaptive beamforming, the desired signal is still…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Xiang Lan , Wei Liu

This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Anand Dabak , Rajan Narasimha , Anil Mani , Piya Pal

A new spatial IIR beamformer based direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation method is proposed in this paper. We propose a retransmission based spatial feedback method for an array of transmit and receive antennas that improves the performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Parth Mehta , Kumar Appaiah , Rajbabu Velmurugan

Beamforming has significance for enhancing spectral efficiency and mitigating interference in multi-antenna wireless systems, facilitating spatial multiplexing and diversity in dense and high mobility scenarios. Traditional beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Cemil Vahapoglu , Timothy J. O'Shea , Wan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

The standard technique used by commercial medical ultrasound systems to form B-mode images is delay and sum (DAS) beamforming. However, DAS often results in limited image resolution and contrast, which are governed by the center frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Regev Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

In recent years, there has been a growing trend in accelerating computationally complex non-real-time beamforming algorithms in ultrasound imaging using deep learning models. However, due to the large size and complexity these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdul Rahoof , Vivek Chaturvedi , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker , Muhammad Shafique

Reliable adaptive beamforming is critical for large microphone arrays operating in highly dynamic acoustic environments. In scenarios characterized by fast-moving talkers and interferers, the available sample support for estimating the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Manan Mittal , Ryan M. Corey , John R. Buck , Andrew C. Singer

A novel approach combining agile beam switching with deep learning to enhance the speed and accuracy of Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation for millimeter-wave (mmWave) phased array systems with low-complexity hardware implementations is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Arav Sharma , Lei Chi , Ari Gebhardt , Alon S. Levin , Timothy R. Hoerning , Sam Keene

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation refers to the process of retrieving the direction information of several electromagnetic waves/sources from the outputs of a number of receiving antennas that form a sensor array. DOA estimation is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Zai Yang , Jian Li , Petre Stoica , Lihua Xie

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using continuous aperture array (CAPA) is studied. Compared to the conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA), CAPA significantly enhances the spatial degrees-of-freedoms (DoFs) for DOA estimation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Haonan Si , Zhaolin Wang , Xiansheng Guo , Jin Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

The phenomenon of mutual coupling in continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs) is studied. First, a general physical model for the phenomenon that accounts for both polarization and surface dissipation losses is developed. Then, the unipolarized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhaolin Wang , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Yuanwei Liu

In order to address the asynchronous interference issue for a generalized scenario with multiple primary and multiple secondary receivers, in this paper, we propose an innovative cooperative beamforming technique. In particular, the…

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In dynamic acoustic environments with time-varying interferers, effective beamforming requires identifying stationary regions over time. The Capon beamformer, a whitened matched filter constrained to maintain unity gain in the desired…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Manan Mittal , Ryan M. Corey , Diego Cuji , John R. Buck , Andrew C. Singer

For a sound field observed on a sensor array, compressive sensing (CS) reconstructs the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of multiple sources using a sparsity constraint. The DOA estimation is posed as an underdetermined problem by expressing the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Peter Gerstoft , Angeliki Xenaki , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

Beamforming techniques utilized either at the transmitter or the receiver terminals have achieved superior quality-of-service performances from both the multi-antenna wireless communications systems, communications intelligence and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 M. Yaser Yağan , Ahmet F. Coşkun , Ali E. Pusane

A novel concept for dynamic focus shaping based on highly efficient coherent beam combining with microlens arrays (MLA) as combining element is presented. This concept allows to control the power weights of diffraction orders by varying the…

Massive multiple input multiple output(MIMO)-based fully-digital receive antenna arrays bring huge amount of complexity to both traditional direction of arrival(DOA) estimation algorithms and neural network training, which is difficult to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Yiwen Chen , Xichao Zhan , Feng Shu

We focus on developing an effective Direction Of Arrival (DOA) estimation method for wideband sources based on the gridless sparse concept. Previous coherent methods have been designed by dividing wideband frequencies into a few subbands…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Milad Javadzadeh Jirhandeh , Mohammad Hossein Kahae

Traditional approaches to outage-constrained beamforming optimization rely on statistical assumptions about channel distributions and estimation errors. However, the resulting outage probability guarantees are only valid when these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Xin Su , Qiushuo Hou , Ruisi He , Osvaldo Simeone