In many cases where direction finding is of interest, the signals impinging on an antenna array are known to be phase modulated and, hence, to have a constant modulus (CM). This is a strong property; by itself, it is already sufficient for source separation and can be used to construct improved direction finding algorithms. We first derive the relevant Cramér–Rao bounds (CRB’s) for arbitrary ar...

A self calibration algorithm for direction finding in the presence of arbitrary shape 3D scatterers of resonating size is presented. This algorithm removes the effects of mutual coupling and 3D scatterers on direction of arrival estimation. The scatterers and wire type antenna array are excited by incident plane waves of arbitrary direction. The 3D scatterers shape is approximated as a sphere, ...

Monopulse is a classical radar technique [1] of precise direction finding of a source or target. The concept can be used both in radar applications as well as in modern communication techniques. The information contained in antenna sidelobes normally disturbs the determination of DOA in the case of a classical monopulse system. The suitable combination of amplitudeand phase-monopulse algorithm ...

In the light of recent developments in optimal real L1-norm principal-component analysis (PCA), we provide the first algorithm in the literature to carry out L1-PCA of complexvalued data. Then, we use this algorithm to develop a novel subspace-based direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation method that is resistant to faulty measurements or jamming. As demonstrated by numerical experiments, the pro...

| In the narrow band array processing context, the use of higher-order statistics has been often advocated because consistent and asymptotically unbiased parameter estimates can be obtained without it being necessary to know, to model or to estimate the spatial covariance of the noise as long as it is normally distributed. However, experimentation shows that this`noise insensitivity' is traded ...

Over the last fifty years, How to Lie with Statistics has sold more copies than any other statistical text. This note explores the factors that contributed to its success and provides biographical sketches of its creators: author Darrell Huff and illustrator Irving Geis.

1 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México Unidad Académica Profesional Tianguistenco Instituto Literario #100, Col. Centro, Toluca, 50000, Estado de México [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2 Laboratorio de Lenguaje Natural y Procesamiento de Texto, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, DF 07738, México sidorov@ci...

The demand of communicating at higher data rates can be easily met by using wideband signals [1], rendering the problem of estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of wideband sources quite important. Multipaths, scatterers etc. present near the transmitter provide spatial bandwidth to these sources, which seriously degrade the performance of traditional DOA estimation techniques, designed ass...

A new pseudo-noise resampling technique is proposed to mitigate the effect of outliers in Unitary ESPRIT. This scheme improves the performance of Unitary ESPRIT in unreliable situations, where the so-called reliability test has a failure. For this purpose, we exploit a pseudo-noise resampling of a failed Unitary ESPRIT estimator with a censored selection of “successful” resamplings recovering t...

In this paper, noncoherent receivers for differential space–time modulation (DSTM) are investigated. It is shown that the performance of the previously proposed conventional differential detection (DD) receiver is satisfactory only for very slow flat fading channels. However, conventional DD suffers from a considerable loss in performance even for moderately fast fading. In order to overcome th...