CMA beamforming for multipath correlated sources
Tuan Dung Nguyen, Zhi Jun Ding · 1997
Blind adaptive beamforming is often used in communication systems to combat co-channel interference. Among a number of techniques, the constant modulus algorithm (CMA) has proven to be an effective tool for blind beamforming of uncorrelated signals. Unfortunately, CMA beamformers encounter problems for correlated signals and interferences. In this paper, we consider correlated co-channel input signals as a result of multipath. We present two adaptation methods based on CMA to capture distinct signal sources. One approach is to use an orthogonal projection constraint on the beamformer parameters. The other approach relies on the independence of source signals and exploit a Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization at beamformer outputs. The performance of our methods is shown through computer simulations.