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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

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Dor H. Shmuel , Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Nir Shlezinger

A robust and sparse Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimator is derived for array data that follows a Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) distribution with zero-mean and finite second-order moments. The derivation allows to choose the loss…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker , Peter Gerstoft , Esa Ollila , Yongsung Park

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

With the rapid expansion of low-altitude economy (LAE) services and the growing demand for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in air-ground networks, reliable direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation has become essential for both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Ye Tian , Tuo Wu , Jintao Wu , He Xu , Yuanjun Shen , Xianfu Lei , Kin-Fai Tong

This paper focuses on the gridless direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation for data acquired by non-uniform linear arrays (NLAs) in automotive applications. Atomic norm minimization (ANM) is a promising gridless sparse recovery algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Silin Gao , Zhe Zhang , Muhan Wang , Yan Zhang , Jie Zhao , Bingchen Zhang , Yue Wang , Yirong Wu

A renaissance in radar-based sensing for mobile robotic applications is underway. Compared to cameras or lidars, millimetre-wave radars have the ability to `see' through thin walls, vegetation, and adversarial weather conditions such as…

Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in sensor arrays faces limitations under demanding conditions, including low signal-to-noise ratio, single-snapshot scenarios, coherent sources, and unknown source counts. Conventional beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Xuyao Deng , Yong Dou , Kele Xu

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) using a sparsely sampled uniform linear array (ULA). Based on an initial incomplete ULA measurement, our strategy is to choose a sparse subset of array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Mohammad Bokaei , Saeed Razavikia , Arash Amini , Stefano Rini

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

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

Phase ambiguity happens in uniform linear arrays (ULAs) when the sensor distance is greater than $\lambda/2$. This problem in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and can be solved by designing a proper sensor configuration. In this work,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 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

We propose a joint estimation method for the Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and the Noise Covariance Matrix (NCM) tailored for beamforming applications. Building upon an existing NCM framework, our approach simplifies the estimation procedure…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Vitor Gelsleichter Probst Curtarelli , Stephan Paul , Anderson Wedderhoff Spengler

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

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

Hybrid Analog and Digital (HAD) architectures provide a cost-effective alternative for large-scale antenna arrays, but accurate Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) estimation remains challenging due to limited digital dimensionality and constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Miguel Rivas-Costa , Carlos Mosquera

Sparse arrays have attracted a lot of interests recently for their capability of providing more degrees of freedom than traditional uniform linear arrays. For a mixture of circular and noncircular signals, most of the existing direction of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Jingjing Cai , Wei Liu , Ru Zong , Yangyang Dong

In this paper, we show that a multi-mode antenna (MMA) is an interesting alternative to a conventional phased antenna array for direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation. By MMA we mean a single physical radiator with multiple ports, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-14 Robert Pöhlmann , Sami Alkubti Almasri , Siwei Zhang , Thomas Jost , Armin Dammann , Peter A. Hoeher

Apart from the conventional parameters (such as signal-to-noise ratio, array geometry and size, sample size), several other factors (e.g. alignment of the antenna elements, polarization parameters) influence the performance of direction of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Md Imrul Hasan , Mohammad Saquib