• DocumentCode
    1753352
  • Title

    Performance analysis of DOA estimation in the threshold region

  • Author

    Athley, Fredrik

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    13-17 May 2002
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a performance analysis of Maximum Likelihood (ML) Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in the threshold region using a sensor array. This region is a range of Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNR) close to the threshold, where the estimation error due to outliers starts to rise very rapidly as the SNR decreases. Approximate expressions for the probability of outlier and the mean square estimation error are derived for the case of a single signal in white Gaussian noise and a single snapshot. It is verified by simulations that the approximations predict the ML DOA estimation performance with high accuracy also at low SNR where the Cramér-Rao bound is far too optimistic.
  • Keywords
    Estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2002 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL, USA
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7402-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2002.5745284
  • Filename
    5745284