Super nested arrays: Linear sparse arrays with reduced mutual coupling—Part II: High-order extensions

CL Liu, PP Vaidyanathan - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In array processing, mutual coupling between sensors has an adverse effect on the
estimation of parameters (eg, DOA). Sparse arrays such as nested arrays, coprime arrays …

Super nested arrays: Linear sparse arrays with reduced mutual coupling—Part I: Fundamentals

CL Liu, PP Vaidyanathan - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In array processing, mutual coupling between sensors has an adverse effect on the
estimation of parameters (eg, DOA). While there are methods to counteract this through …

Super nested arrays: Sparse arrays with less mutual coupling than nested arrays

CL Liu, PP Vaidyanathan - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In array processing, mutual coupling between sensors has an adverse effect on the
estimation of parameters (eg, DOA). Sparse arrays, such as nested arrays, coprime arrays …

Sparse symmetric linear arrays with low redundancy and a contiguous sum co-array

R Rajamäki, V Koivunen - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse arrays can resolve significantly more scatterers or sources than sensor by utilizing
the co-array-a virtual array structure consisting of pairwise differences or sums of sensor …

ULA fitting for sparse array design

W Shi, SA Vorobyov, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing sparse array (SA) geometries, such as coprime and nested arrays, can be regarded
as a concatenation of two uniform linear arrays (ULAs). Such arrays lead to a significant …

Generalized non-redundant sparse array designs

A Ahmed, YD Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present novel generalized non-redundant sparse array design strategies that achieve
the highest possible number of degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) for direction-of-arrival (DOA) …

Generalized nested array: Optimization for degrees of freedom and mutual coupling

J Shi, G Hu, X Zhang, H Zhou - IEEE Communications Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a generalized nested array (GNA) with two flexible co-prime factors
for enlarging the inter-element spacing of two concatenated uniform linear subarrays. It is …

Hourglass arrays and other novel 2-D sparse arrays with reduced mutual coupling

CL Liu, PP Vaidyanathan - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Linear [one-dimensional (1-D)] sparse arrays such as nested arrays and minimum
redundancy arrays have hole-free difference coarrays with O (N 2) virtual sensor elements …

Thinned coprime array for second-order difference co-array generation with reduced mutual coupling

A Raza, W Liu, Q Shen - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a new coprime array structure termed thinned coprime array (TCA),
which exploits the redundancy in the structure of existing coprime array and achieves the …

MISC array: A new sparse array design achieving increased degrees of freedom and reduced mutual coupling effect

Z Zheng, WQ Wang, Y Kong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, nested and coprime arrays have attracted considerable interest due to their
capability of providing increased array aperture, enhanced degrees of freedom (DOFs), and …