A Beamformer Employing Pseudo-Interference Technique for Digital Communication Systems

Abstract

This paper presents a new receiver for antenna array to provide robustness against adaptive array imperfections. These imperfections include the array gain errors and the directional mismatch. The superior performance of the proposed receiver is primarily achieved by adding an injected pseudo-interference in the diagonally loaded Capon beamformer. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method has excellent performance for both binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) systems.