A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design

IEEE This paper is concerned with a robust minimum variance beamformer design. To hedge the mismatch between the true and the assumed steering vectors, a distributionally robust beamformer (DR-beamformer) is proposed. The tractable reformulation of this beamformer is developed. Compared with the exi...

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Main Authors: Li, Bin, Rong, Yue, Sun, Jie, Teo, Kok Lay
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62307
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Rong, Yue
Sun, Jie
Teo, Kok Lay
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Rong, Yue
Sun, Jie
Teo, Kok Lay
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description IEEE This paper is concerned with a robust minimum variance beamformer design. To hedge the mismatch between the true and the assumed steering vectors, a distributionally robust beamformer (DR-beamformer) is proposed. The tractable reformulation of this beamformer is developed. Compared with the existing robust beamformers (worst-case robust beamformer, Gaussian robust beamformer), the proposed robust beamformer does not assume full knowledge of the channel mismatch. Therefore, it is more flexible in practice and more general in formulation. In addition, the relationships of the proposed robust beamformer with the existing ones are investigated. The performance gain of the DR-beamformer over the other robust beamformers is highlighted through numerical simulations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-623072018-02-01T05:55:55Z A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design Li, Bin Rong, Yue Sun, Jie Teo, Kok Lay IEEE This paper is concerned with a robust minimum variance beamformer design. To hedge the mismatch between the true and the assumed steering vectors, a distributionally robust beamformer (DR-beamformer) is proposed. The tractable reformulation of this beamformer is developed. Compared with the existing robust beamformers (worst-case robust beamformer, Gaussian robust beamformer), the proposed robust beamformer does not assume full knowledge of the channel mismatch. Therefore, it is more flexible in practice and more general in formulation. In addition, the relationships of the proposed robust beamformer with the existing ones are investigated. The performance gain of the DR-beamformer over the other robust beamformers is highlighted through numerical simulations. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62307 10.1109/LSP.2017.2773601 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers restricted
spellingShingle Li, Bin
Rong, Yue
Sun, Jie
Teo, Kok Lay
A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design
title A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design
title_full A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design
title_fullStr A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design
title_full_unstemmed A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design
title_short A Distributionally Robust Minimum Variance Beamformer Design
title_sort distributionally robust minimum variance beamformer design
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62307