Title :
Joint estimation of time delays and directions of arrival of multiple reflections of a known signal
Author :
Wax, Mati ; Leshem, Amir
Author_Institution :
RAFAEL, Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
An efficient algorithm for estimating the time delays and the directions-of-arrival of multiple reflections of a known signal is presented. The algorithm is based on an iterative scheme that transforms the multidimensional maximum likelihood criterion into two sets of simple one dimensional maximisations. Simulation results illustrating the performance of the algorithm in comparison with the Cramer-Rao bound are included
Keywords :
delays; direction-of-arrival estimation; iterative methods; maximum likelihood estimation; Cramer-Rao bound; directions of arrival; iterative scheme; joint estimation; multidimensional maximum likelihood criterion; multiple reflections; one dimensional maximisations; performance; time delays; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Direction of arrival estimation; Iterative algorithms; Maximum likelihood estimation; Radar; Reflection; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sonar;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. ICASSP-96. Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3192-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1996.548002