Wideband maximum likelihood direction finding and signal parameter estimation by using the tree-structured em algorithm

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Author
Çadalli, N.
Ankan O.
Date
1997Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Print ISSN
1053587X
Volume
45
Issue
1
Pages
287
Language
English
Type
Article
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/25575Abstract
A thorough derivation of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, which is an iterative numerical method of maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, is presented for the case of estimating direction of arrivals of unknown deterministic wideband signals incident from different directions onto a passive array. For the required signal estimation, alternative regularized least squares estimation techniques are proposed with significant improvement over the standard least squares techniques. In addition, for the angle of arrival estimation of large number of signals, a tree-structured EM algorithm is proposed and compared with the conventional EM approach. Extensive simulation results are presented for comparison of the proposed algorithms with the current high-resolution methods of wideband direction finding. In order to handle efficiently the case of available parametric prior models on the received waveforms, the required modifications are also given. © 1997 IEEE.