The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal

2016, 10 : 197-204
Published online 2016 December 30. DOI: 10.2174/1874129001610010197
Publisher ID: TOEEJ-10-197

RESEARCH ARTICLE
 Effect of Errors in Beamforming Analysis Applied for MVDR and CBF Method

Xueping Li1,2, * , Youcheng Wang3 , Zhaoying Wang1 , Shu Xu1 and Yu Zhang1,2

* Address correspondence to this author at the College of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Henen Normal University 46# East of Construction Road, Xinxiang, Henan, China; Tel: +863733326151; Fax: +863733326151; E-mail: lxpslxhhw@126.com

ABSTRACT

Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) method can achieve a lower null level of beamforming compared to the Conventional Beamformer (CBF) method. It can not only minimize the array system mean output power but also maintain a distortion less response to desired signal as it adaptively depends on sample data. The effect of errors in beamforming analysis is applied using MVDR and CBF method. The errors include variance of weight and steering vector with different input SIR. These errors can affect the performance of array system’s mean output power and SINR for both CBF and MVDR. However, the MVDR method has more robust characteristics compared to the CBF method in the case of slight errors. The errors analysis also shows that factors of variance can weaken the performance of MVDR beamformer for suppressing clutters.

Keywords:

Beamforming, MVDR, CBF, Error analysis, Beamformer.