A Comparison of Adaptive Beamforming Implementations for Wideband Scenarios

In this paper, we compare low cost implementations of wideband adaptive beamformers utilising the generalised sidelobe canceller (GSC) in combination with the least-mean squares algorithms. DFT based techniques suffer from unjustified narrowband assumptions. We therefore derive and investigate an overlap-save implementation of the GSC, which offers a steady state suppression of jammers equivalent to a time domain GSC but may be prone to slow convergence. Finally, subband techniques offer a more robust convergence trade-off for a somewhat higher computational cost. Analysis and simulation results revealing some of the algorithms’ properties are presented.