Kaiser Window Based Blind Beamformers for Radar Application
Veerendra Dakulagi, Mukil Alagirisamy · IETE Journal of Research · 2019
Blind beamforming algorithms are the first choice for radar applications as they won’t use any training signal. But the major downside of constant modulus algorithm (CMA) is very low convergence rate. To overcome this problem and to make this algorithm more suitable for real-time applications, we firstly improved the convergence rate of CMA by making its step size adaptive. Then, we applied Kaiser window to improved CMA and conventional least-square CMA (LS-CMA) to suppress the sidelobe levels. These proposed algorithms are named Kaiser window-constant modulus algorithm and Kaiser window least square-constant modulus algorithm, respectively. Computer simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed beamformers.