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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…

Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation serves as a critical sensing technology poised to play a vital role in future intelligent and ubiquitous communication systems. Despite the development of numerous mature super-resolution algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jiaji Ren , Ye Tian , Baiyang Liu , Tuo Wu , Wei Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Kwai-Man Luk

In this paper, we study the problem of direction of arrival estimation and model order selection for systems employing subarray sampling. Thereby, we focus on scenarios, where the number of active sources is not smaller than the number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Andreas Barthelme , Wolfgang Utschick

In this letter, we propose a joint frequency-space sparse reconstruction method for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, which effectively addresses the issues arising from the existence of coherent sources and array amplitude-phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Yutong Chen , Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Shuo Shi

Single-snapshot signal processing in sparse linear arrays has become increasingly vital, particularly in dynamic environments like automotive radar systems, where only limited snapshots are available. These arrays are often utilized either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Hongshan Liu , Yimin D. Zhang

This paper proposes a new sparse array geometry for 2-D (azimuth and elevation) DOA (direction-of-arrival) estimation. The proposed array geometry is V-shaped sparse array and it is composed of two linear portions which are crossing each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Ahmet M. Elbir

Sparse array arrangement has been widely used in vector-sensor arrays because of increased degree-of-freedoms for identifying more sources than sensors. For large-size sparse vector-sensor arrays, one-bit measurements can further reduce the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Zhiyong Cheng , Shengyao Chen , Qibin Shen , Jin He , Zhong liu

Estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of sources is an important problem in aerospace and vehicular communication, localization and radar. In this paper, we consider a challenging multi-source DOA estimation task, where the receiving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Tom Tirer , Oded Bialer

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) for a non-uniform and sparse linear sensor array using the weighted lifted structure low-rank matrix completion. The proposed method uses a single snapshot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Saeed Razavikia , Mohammad Bokaei , Arash Amini , Stefano Rini , Carlo Fischione

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

The estimation of direction of arrival (DOA) is a crucial issue in conventional radar, wireless communication, and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. However, low-cost systems often suffer from imperfect factors, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Peng Chen , Zhimin Chen , Liang Liu , Yun Chen , Xianbin Wang

This paper studies spatial smoothing using sparse arrays in single-snapshot Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation. We consider the application of automotive MIMO radar, which traditionally synthesizes a large uniform virtual array by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Pulak Sarangi , Piya Pal

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a classical problem in signal processing with many practical applications. Its research has recently been advanced owing to the development of methods based on sparse signal reconstruction. While…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Zai Yang , Lihua Xie , Cishen Zhang

A simple scheme for joint direction of arrival (DOA) and array manifold estimation for a MIMO array system is proposed, where only two transmit antennas are calibrated initially. It first obtains a set of initial DOA results by employing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Wei Zhang , Wei Liu , Siliang Wu , Ju Wang

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a fundamental problem in array signal processing with applications spanning radar, sonar, wireless communications, and acoustic signal processing. This tutorial survey provides a comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Amgad A. Salama

Standard Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation methods are typically derived based on the Gaussian noise assumption, making them highly sensitive to outliers. Therefore, in the presence of impulsive noise, the performance of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Y. Li , W. Xiao , L. Zhao , Z. Huang , Q. Li , L. Li , R. C. de Lamare

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

An ambiguity-free direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation scheme is proposed for sparse uniform linear arrays under low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and non-stationary broadband signals. First, for achieving better DOA estimation performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Wei Wang , Shefeng Yan , Linlin Mao , Zeping Sui , Jirui Yang

Phase wrapping is a major problem in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using phase-difference observations. For a sensor pair with an inter-sensor spacing greater than half of the wavelength ($\lambda/2$) of the signal, phase wrapping…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Hui Chen , Tarig Ballal , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper presents a general technique for the joint Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and Time-of-Arrival (ToA) estimation in multipath environments. The proposed ultra-wideband technique is based on phase-mode expansions and the use of nearly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Alejandro Ramírez-Arroyo , Antonio Alex-Amor , Pablo Padilla , Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés