Cramer-Rao bound and approximate maximum likelihood estimation for non-coherent direction of arrival problem

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Abstract

In previous work we proposed a direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method from non-coherent measurements taken by an array of sensors. Here, it is shown that the non-coherent measurements in the form of magnitude squared of array observations measured in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise are distributed according to a non-central chisquare distribution. It is further shown that, under certain conditions, the non-coherent measurements may be approximated by a Gaussian distribution. With this approximation, we develop the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) on the non-coherent DOA estimation of a single source as well as an analytical expression of the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the DOA. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the performance of the non-coherent DOA estimator. For example, non-coherent DOA estimation outperforms coherent DOA when the standard deviation of the phase errors exceeds 15 degrees and the signal to noise ratio (SNR) exceeds 5 dB.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages506-510
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467394574
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 26 2016
Event50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016 - Princeton, United States
Duration: Mar 16 2016Mar 18 2016

Publication series

Name2016 50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016

Other

Other50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPrinceton
Period3/16/163/18/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Cramer-Rao bound
  • Direction of arrival
  • Magnitude-only measurements
  • Maximum likelihood estimation

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