Robust Adaptive Beamforming Against Interferer’s Direction Of Arrival Estimation Error

One of the ways to deal with the effect of jammers, especially intra-band jammers, is to use beamforming in multi-antenna systems. In this method, based on the direction of arrival (DOA) of the desired signal and DOA of the interferer, it is tried to design a beam pattern which has a peak in the direction of the desired source and a null in the direction of interferer. Depth of the null and its location depend on the information obtained about the angle of interferer from electronic support measure (ESM) system. In practice, it is not possible to obtain accurate information from the electronic support measure (ESM) system. In this paper, a beamforming method named estimation error probability based beamformer (EEPBF)which is robust to DOA estimation error has been proposed. Data dependent methods may be more efficient than the proposed method with the cost of more complexity of receiver structure required to extract information from the desired and interference signals, whilst for confronting the interferer our proposed method uses existing systems’ information, taking into account their errors. The proposed method keeps signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) in the order of signal to noise ratio (SNR) which can be obtained by error free DOA estimation methods. Simulation results show that the proposed method is more efficient than previous methods and traditional approaches.