Noncircularity-Based Localization for Mixed Near-Field and Far-Field Sources with Unknown Mutual Coupling

Abstract

In this paper, a novel noncircularity-based localization method for mixed near-field (NF) and far-field (FF) sources is proposed with a symmetric uniform linear array (ULA) in the presence of unknown mutual coupling (UMC). Based on the principle of rank reduction (RARE), the multiple parameters of the sources including direction of arrival (DOA), range and mutual coupling coefficient (MCC) are decoupled, so that only several one-dimensional (1-D) spectral searches are required for their estimation. Meanwhile, the proposed method can also distinguish the types of sources without any extra processing. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for the classification and localization of mixed sources under UMC.