Yung-Sheng Lu
MAR 01, 2018
@NCTU-CS
IEEE ICCSP 2015
Pooja Gupta, S. P. Kar
The effectiveness of the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation greatly determines the performance of smart antennas.
The accuracy in the estimation of DOA is very crucial in array signal processing.
The MUSIC algorithm emphasized on a peak search method to estimate the arrival angle.
Array element spacing
Number of array elements
Number of snapshots
The signal incidence angle difference
The MUSIC algorithm has less efficiency for coherent signals.
The physical size of the operating antenna is inversely proportional to the antenna main lobe beam width.
Increasing the size of a single antenna is not practically feasible.
Antenna array provides better performances and signal reception.
Strengthen the useful signals by eliminating the noise signals and interference.
E.g., ESPRIT, MUSIC, WSF, MVDR, ML techniques and others.
ESPRIT (Estimation of Signal Parameter via Rotational Invariance Techniques) and MUSIC (Multiple Signal Classification) are the two widely used spectral estimation techniques.
Decomposition of Eigen values
ESPRIT is applied to only array structures with some peculiar geometry.
MUSIC is used for both uniform and non-uniform linear arrays.
narrowband source signals with same center frequency
Signals are impinging on an array of sensor elements.
Consecutive linearly spaced with equal distances
The space matrix
The number of sensor to be greater than the number of signals being incident, i.e. .
The signals are incident on the sensor with azimuth angles .
azimuth angles
source signals
sensor elements
Consider the first element of the antenna array to be the reference
, where
The total sensing at the array due to all incoming signals is
, where
The and the elements of the array are separated with a distance of .
The matrix representation of the received signal is
is the steering vector matrix.
is the noise received by all the elements.
is the signal source being incident on the elements.
Schmidt with his colleagues proposed the Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm in 1979.
The Eigen value decomposition of the received signal covariance matrix.
As this algorithm takes uncorrelated noise in to account, the generated covariance matrix is diagonal in nature.
The signal and the noise subspaces are orthogonal to each other.
This algorithm exploits the orthogonality to isolate the signal and noise subspaces.
The covariance matrix for the received data J is the expectance of the matrix with its Hermitian equivalent.
In a practical scenario, the signals are associated with the noise, so now the computed correlation matrix along with noise is
is the covariance matrix for the signal .
is the steering vector matrix.
When this correlation matrix is decomposed it results in number of Eigen values out of which the larger Eigen values corresponds to the signal sources and the remaining smaller Eigen values are related to the noise subspace.
is the basis for signal subspace.
is the basis for noise subspace.
As the MUSIC algorithm exploits the orthogonality between the signal and noise subspaces, the following holds true:
The DOA angle can be represented in terms of incident signal sources and the noise subspaces.
Consider an array with 10 elements and vary the spacing as
, and respectively
The spectrum losses efficiency when the element spacing is increased beyond .
Consider the number of array elements is increased to 10, 20 and 30 respectively
Consider the number of snapshot is increased to 10, 20 and 30
respectively
Consider the angle difference between the incoming signals is increased to , and
MUSIC algorithm achieves high resolution in DOA estimation only when the signals are non-coherent.
Introduce an identity transition matrix so that the new received signal matrix
is the complex conjugate of the original received signal matrix.
The matrix and can be summed up to obtain a reconstructed matrix because they will have the same noise subspaces.