Adaptive Null Widening Beamforming Algorithm in Spatially Correlated Color Noise

Abstract

Under the background of spatially correlated color noise, the incidence angle of a jamming signal in a high-speed moving platform rapidly changes, which leads to the degradation of the anti-interference performance and the waveform distortion of the adaptive beamformer. In this paper, a projection-constrained null broadening beamforming algorithm based on the Toeplitz matrix structure is proposed. The algorithm first extracts the subspace of the covariance matrix of the steering vector of the pre-determined extended angle interval and constructs the constraint matrix and the projection transformation matrix. The received signal covariance matrix with a Toeplitz structure is then constructed using the correlation number between each array element and the pre-set reference array element. Finally, the constructed covariance matrix is transformed through projection, and the weight of each array element is constrained by the constraint matrix. The theoretical optimal solution of adaptive wide null beamforming in spatially correlated color noise is obtained. The simulation results show that, compared with the existing robust adaptive beamforming algorithms, the proposed algorithm can efficiently improve the distortion of adaptive anti-jamming beams, and can achieve null broadening in the jamming direction under the condition of spatially correlated color noise, which improves the output signal to the interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the adaptive beamformer.