Parallel Subspace Projection Beamforming for Autonomous, Passive Sonar Signal Processing
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Adaptive techniques can be applied to improve performance of a beamformer in a cluttered environment. The sequential implementation of an adaptive beamformer, for many sensors and over a wide band of frequencies, presents a serious computational challenge. By coupling each transducer node with a microprocessor, in-situ parallel processing applied to an adaptive beamformer on a distributed system can glean advantages in execution speed, fault tolerance, scalability, and cost. In this paper, parallel algorithms for Subspace Projection Beamforming (SPB), using QR decomposition on distributed systems, are introduced for in-situ signal processing. Performance results from parallel and sequential algorithms are presented using a distributed system testbed comprised of a cluster of computers connected by a network. The execution times, parallel efficiencies, and memory requirements of each parallel algorithm are presented and analyzed. The results of these analyses demonstrate that parallel in-situ processing holds the potential to meet the needs of future advanced beamforming algorithms in a scalable fashion.
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