Blind 2-D Angles of Arrival Estimation for Distributed Signals Using L-Shaped Arrays
Yi Zheng, Xuegang Wang, Tieqi Xia, Qun Wan · 2008
Most existing two dimensional (2-D) angles of arrival (AOAs) estimation methods are based on the assumption that the signal sources are point sources. However, in mobile communications, local scattering in the vicinity of the mobile results in angular spreading as seen from a base station antenna array. In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the 2-D AOAs of spatially distributed sources. First we perform blind estimation of the steering vectors by exploiting joint diagonalization, then the 2-D AOAs are obtained through two fast Fourier transforming of the estimated steering vectors. Simulations are carried out to illustrate the performance of the method.