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We consider the problem of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using a newly proposed structure of non-uniform linear arrays, referred to as co-prime arrays, in this paper. By exploiting the second order statistical information of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Zhao Tan , Yonina C. Eldar , Arye Nehorai

Array structures based on the fourth-order difference co-array (FODCA) provide more degrees of freedom (DOF). However, since the growth of DOF is limited by a single case of fourth-order cumulant in FODCA, this paper aims to design a sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Si Wang , Guoqiang Xiao

In this paper, we address the problem of direction finding using coprime array, which is one of the most preferred sparse array configurations. Motivated by the fact that non-uniform element spacing hinders full utilization of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Shengheng Liu , Zihuan Mao , Yimin D. Zhang , Yongming Huang

In this letter, we propose a new wireless sensing system equipped with a rotatable antenna (RA) array to enhance the sensing performance of a uniform sparse array (USA). To tackle the severe spatial undersampling issues, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Jincheng Du , Wenyan Ma , Qingqing Wu , Wen Wu , Rui Zhang

Sensor arrays play a significant role in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. Specifically, arrays with low redundancy and reduced mutual coupling are desirable. In this paper, we investigate a sensor array configuration that has a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shidong Zhang , Zhengchun Zhou , Guolong Cui , Xiaohu Tang , Pingzhi Fan

We present a gridless sparse iterative covariance-based estimation method based on alternating projections for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. The gridless DOA estimation is formulated in the reconstruction of Toeplitz-structured low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Yongsung Park , Peter Gerstoft

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in array processing using uniform/sparse linear arrays is concerned in this paper. While sparse methods via approximate parameter discretization have been popular in the past decade, the discretization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Zai Yang , Lihua Xie , Cishen Zhang

This paper investigates the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using multiple partially-calibrated sparse subarrays. In particular, we present the Generalized Coarray Multiple Signal Classification (GCA-MUSIC) DOA estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 W. S. Leite , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper we investigate the design of compressive antenna arrays for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation that aim to provide a larger aperture with a reduced hardware complexity by a linear combination of the antenna outputs to a…

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) baseline optimization technique is capable of reducing system complexity and improving the temporal coherence of data, which has become an important research in the field of TomoSAR. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Pengyu Jiang , Zhe Zhang , Bingchen Zhang , Zhongqiu Xu

In this paper, we address the problem of joint direction-of-arrival (DoA) and range estimation using frequency diverse coprime array (FDCA). By incorporating the coprime array structure and coprime frequency offsets, a two-dimensional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Zihuan Mao , Shengheng Liu , Yimin D. Zhang , Leixin Han , Yongming Huang

In the second part of the series papers, we set out to study the algorithmic efficiency of sparse sensing. Stemmed from co-prime sensing, we propose a generalized framework, termed Diophantine sensing, which utilizes generic Diophantine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hanshen Xiao , Beining Zhou , Guoqiang Xiao

The term fractal refers to the fractional dimensions that have recursive nature and exhibit better array factor properties. In this article, we present a new class of sparse array where the recursive nature of a fractal can be used in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Kretika Goel , Monika Aggarwal , Subrat Kar

This paper studies the effects of directional antenna element complex gain patterns and nonidealities in direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. We compare sparse arrays and classical uniform linear arrays, harnessing EM simulation tools to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Niko Lindvall , Mikko Heino , Robin Rajamäki , Mikko Valkama , Visa Koivunen

We consider the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in unknown partially correlated noise environments where the noise covariance matrix is sparse. A sparse noise covariance matrix is a common model for a sparse array of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Magnus Jansson , Arash Owrang , Ali Koochakzadeh , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh

Sparse arrays can resolve significantly more scatterers or sources than sensor by utilizing the co-array - a virtual array structure consisting of pairwise differences or sums of sensor positions. Although several sparse array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Robin Rajamäki , Visa Koivunen

Recent advancements in Deep Learning (DL) for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation have highlighted its superiority over traditional methods, offering faster inference, enhanced super-resolution, and robust performance in low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Hongshan Liu , Honglei Chen , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Jian Li

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

Recently, compressive antenna arrays have been considered for DoA estimation with reduced hardware complexity. By utilizing compressive sensing, such arrays employ a linear combining network to combine signals from a larger set of antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Sankalp Pawar , Sebastian Semper , Florian Römer