ADMM based mainlobe power constrained phase-only sidelobe supression
Author
Alp, Yaşar Kemal
Arıkan, Orhan
Date
2014Source Title
Proceedings of the 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2014
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
610 - 613
Language
Turkish
Type
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Abstract
A novel sidelobe suppression technique is proposed for phased arrays, where only the phases of the array elements are adjusted to suppress the gain in the direction of interest while keeping the mainlobe power at a certain level. Mainlobe power constrained sidelobe suppression is formulated as a convex RSDP (Relaxed Semidefinite Program). Solution to resultant RSDP is obtained by ADMM (Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers) technique, which can handle designs for arrays with number of elements is significantly larger than that can be handled by other convex solvers such as CVX. In addition, although the available convex solvers can not provide a rank-1 solution matrix, a rank-1 solution matrix is obtained by modifying the ADMM iterations. In the conducted experiments, it is observed that proposed ADMM based method can achieve more than 10dB improvement in sidelobe levels compared to alternative techniques.
Keywords
Alternating direction method of multipliersConvex solver
Phased array
Relaxed semidefinite program
Electrical engineering
Semidefinite programs
Side-lobe suppression
Sidelobe levels
Sidelobe suppression technique
Solution matrix
Signal processing