Robust Adaptive
Beamforming
Edited by
Jian Li and Petre Stoica
A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION
Robust Adaptive
Beamforming
Robust Adaptive
Beamforming
Edited by
Jian Li and Petre Stoica
A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Robust adaptive beamforming/edited by Jian Li and Petre Stoica.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-471-67850-2 (cloth)
ISBN-10 0-471-67850-3 (cloth)
1. Adaptive antennas. 2. Antenna radiation patterns.
I. Li, Jian.
II. Stoica, Petre.
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CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface
1 Robust Minimum Variance Beamforming
Robert G. Lorenz and Stephen P. Boyd
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 A Practical Example 8
1.3 Robust Weight Selection 12
1.4 A Numerical Example 23
1.5 Ellipsoidal Modeling 28
1.6 Uncertainty Ellipsoid Calculus 31
1.7 Beamforming Example with Multiplicative Uncertainties 41
1.8 Summary 44
Appendix: Notation and Glossary 44
References 45
2 Robust Adaptive Beamforming Based on Worst-Case
Performance Optimization
Alex B. Gershman, Zhi-Quan Luo, and Shahram Shahbazpanahi
2.1 Introduction 49
2.2 Background and Traditional Approaches 51
2.3 Robust Minimum Variance Beamforming Based on
Worst-Case Performance Optimization 60
2.4 Numerical Examples 74
2.5 Conclusions 80
Appendix 2.A: Proof of Lemma 1 81
Appendix 2.B: Proof of Lemma 2 81
Appendix 2.C: Proof of Lemma 3 82
Appendix 2.D: Proof of Lemma 4 84
Appendix 2.E: Proof of Lemma 5 85
References 85
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