Extension of co-prime arrays based on the fourth-order difference co-array concept

Q Shen, W Liu, W Cui, S Wu - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An effective sparse array extension method for maximizing the number of consecutive lags
in the fourth-order difference co-array is proposed, leading to a novel enhanced sparse …

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 …

An expanding and shift scheme for constructing fourth-order difference coarrays

J Cai, W Liu, R Zong, Q Shen - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An expanding and shift scheme for efficient fourth-order difference coarray construction is
proposed. It consists of two sparse subarrays, where one of them is modified and shifted …

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 …

Generalized coprime array configurations

S Qin, YD Zhang, MG Amin - 2014 IEEE 8th Sensor Array and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A coprime array consists of two uniform linear subarrays that construct an effective difference
co-array with certain desirable characteristics. In this paper, we propose a generalized …

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) …

High-order cumulants based sparse array design via fractal geometries—Part I: Structures and DOFs

Z Yang, Q Shen, W Liu, YC Eldar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Array structures based on the high-order difference co-array concept provide a large number
of degrees of freedom, but are typically difficult to design under multiple optimality criteria. In …

A novel nested configuration based on the difference and sum co-array concept

Z Chen, Y Ding, S Ren, Z Chen - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

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 …

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 …