Abstract
Antenna arrays have many applications in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. Sparse arrays such as nested arrays, super nested arrays, and coprime arrays have large degrees of freedom (DOFs). They can estimate large number of sources greater than the number of elements. They also have closed form expressions for antenna locations and the achievable DOFs. The multi-level prime array (MLPA) uses multiple uniform linear subarrays where the number of elements in the subarrays are pairwise coprime integers. The array achieves large DOFs and it has closed form expressions for the antenna locations and the required aperture size. For a given number of subarrays and total number of elements, there are different design alternatives. This paper finds the optimum number of elements within each subarray and the optimized ordered inter-element spacing. In almost all cases, we have found that a unique configuration jointly realizes the maximum number of unique lags and the maximum number of consecutive lags.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2021 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2021 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780738113166 |
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| State | Published - 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | 2021 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2021 |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 IEEE.
Keywords
- Antenna arrays
- Degrees of freedom
- Direction-of-arrival
- Multi-level prime array
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems and Management
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Instrumentation
- Computer Networks and Communications