scholarly journals White noise reduction for wideband linear array signal processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Anbiyaei ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Des C. McLernon
Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhong Chen ◽  
Yingtao Ding ◽  
Shiwei Ren ◽  
Zhiming Chen

Recently, the concept of the difference and sum co-array (DSCa) has attracted much attention in array signal processing due to its high degree of freedom (DOF). In this paper, the DSCa of the nested array (NA) is analyzed and then an improved nested configuration known as the diff-sum nested array (DsNA) is proposed. We find and prove that the sum set for the NA contains all the elements in the difference set. Thus, there exists the dual characteristic between the two sets, i.e., for the difference result between any two sensor locations of the NA, one equivalent non-negative/non-positive sum result of two other sensor locations can always be found. In order to reduce the redundancy for further DOF enhancement, we develop a new DsNA configuration by moving nearly half the dense sensors of the NA to the right side of the sparse uniform linear array (ULA) part. These moved sensors together with the original sparse ULA form an extended sparse ULA. For analysis, we provide the closed form expressions of the DsNA locations as well as the DOF. Compared with some novel sparse arrays with large aperture such as the NA, coprime array and augmented nested array, the DsNA can achieve a higher number of DOF. The effectiveness of the proposed array is proved by the simulations.


Author(s):  
Navaamsini Boopalan ◽  
Agileswari K. Ramasamy ◽  
Farrukh Hafiz Nagi

Array sensors are widely used in various fields such as radar, wireless communications, autonomous vehicle applications, medical imaging, and astronomical observations fault diagnosis. Array signal processing is accomplished with a beam pattern which is produced by the signal's amplitude and phase at each element of array. The beam pattern can get rigorously distorted in case of failure of array element and effect its Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) badly. This paper proposes on a Hybrid Neural Network layer weight Goal Attain Optimization (HNNGAO) method to generate a recovery beam pattern which closely resembles the original beam pattern with remaining elements in the array. The proposed HNNGAO method is compared with classic synthesize beam pattern goal attain method and failed beam pattern generated in MATLAB environment. The results obtained proves that the proposed HNNGAO method gives better SNR ratio with remaining working element in linear array compared to classic goal attain method alone. Keywords: Backpropagation; Feed-forward neural network; Goal attain; Neural networks; Radiation pattern; Sensor arrays; Sensor failure; Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)


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