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 …

Augmented covariance matrix reconstruction for DOA estimation using difference coarray

Z Zheng, Y Huang, WQ Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As is well known, nonuniform linear arrays have significant advantages in array aperture
and degrees of freedom over uniform linear arrays. Using their difference coarrays …

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 …

Off-grid DOA estimation using sparse Bayesian learning in MIMO radar with unknown mutual coupling

P Chen, Z Cao, Z Chen, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the practical radar with multiple antennas, the antenna imperfections degrade the system
performance. In this paper, the problem of estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) in a …

Padded coprime arrays for improved DOA estimation: Exploiting hole representation and filling strategies

W Zheng, X Zhang, Y Wang, J Shen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a generalized coprime array structure, the coprime array with displaced subarrays
(CADiS) allows a large minimum inter-element spacing by introducing a specific …

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 …

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 …

Enhanced DOA estimation exploiting multi-frequency sparse array

S Zhang, A Ahmed, YD Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a general framework of multi-frequency sparse array to estimate
the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of a significantly higher number of targets than the number of …

Enhanced and generalized coprime array for direction of arrival estimation

J Shi, F Wen, Y Liu, Z Liu, P Hu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the large degrees of freedom and reduced mutual coupling by generating
difference coarrays, nonuniform linear arrays have aroused great interest in direction of …

Extended coprime array configuration generating large-scale antenna co-array in massive MIMO system

W Zheng, X Zhang, Y Wang, M Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generally, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system incorporates hundreds of
antennas at the base station for various attractive merits, whereas severe mutual coupling …