Rapid Phase Ambiguity Elimination Methods for DOA Estimator via Hybrid Massive MIMO Receive Array

ZHAN Xichao; SUN Zhongwen; SHU Feng; CHEN Yiwen; CHENG Xin; WU Yuanyuan; ZHANG Qi; LI Yifan; ZHANG Peng

doi:10.23919/cje.2022.00.112

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Xichao ZHAN, Zhongwen SUN, Feng SHU, et al., “Rapid Phase Ambiguity Elimination Methods for DOA Estimator via Hybrid Massive MIMO Receive Array,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 175–184, 2024 doi: 10.23919/cje.2022.00.112

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Xichao ZHAN, Zhongwen SUN, Feng SHU, et al., “Rapid Phase Ambiguity Elimination Methods for DOA Estimator via Hybrid Massive MIMO Receive Array,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 175–184, 2024 doi: 10.23919/cje.2022.00.112

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Rapid Phase Ambiguity Elimination Methods for DOA Estimator via Hybrid Massive MIMO Receive Array

doi: 10.23919/cje.2022.00.112

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School of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
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School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

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Xichao ZHAN was born in Anhui Province, China. He is a postgraduate student in the School of Information and Communication Engineer at Hainan University, Haikou, China. His research interest is DOA estimation. (Email: zhange0223@163.com)

Zhongwen SUN was born in Shandong Province, China. He is a postgraduate student in the School of Information and Communication Engineer at Hainan University, Haikou, China. His research interests include channel estimation and wireless communication. (Email: yukisoranya@gmail.com)

Feng SHU is a Professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineer at Hainan University, Haikou, China. His research interests include massive MIMO (especially directional and spatial modulations), DOA measurements, wireless location, and machine learning for mobile communications. In 2020, he was awarded with the Leading Talents of Hainan Province. Also, he has been awarded with Ming Jian Scholar Chair Professor and Fujian Hundred-talents Program in Fujian Province, China. He has published more 200 journal papers and with more than 150 SCI-indexed papers and more than 100 IEEE journal papers. Now, he serves as an Editor for IEEE journals IEEE Systems Journal and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. (Email: shufeng0101@163.com)

Yiwen CHEN was born in Henan Province, China. He is a postgraduate student in the School of Information and Communication Engineer at Hainan University, Haikou, China. His research interests include emitter detection and DOA estimation. (Email: cyw1978650281@163.com)

Xin CHENG received the B.S. degrees from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 2018, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the School of Electronic and Optical Engineering. His research interests include wireless communication, signal processing, and distributed computation. (Email: 118104010558@njust.edu.cn)

Yuanyuan WU is a Professor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China. Her research interests include control automation, digital image processing, multi-source information fusion, and artificial intelligence. (Email: wyuanyuan@163.com)

Qi ZHANG received the M.S. degree in electronic and communication engineering from Hainan University, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the School of Information and Communication Engineering at Hainan University. His research interests include wireless physical-layer security, signal processing and covert communication. (Email: hdzhangqi0509@163.com)

Yifan LI is a Ph.D student with the School of Electronic and Optical Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. His research interests include localization, array processing and machine learning. (Email: liyifan97@foxmail.com)

Peng ZHANG is a postgraduate student in the School of Information and Communication Engineer at Hainan University, Haikou, China. His research interests include IRS-aided relay systems. (Email:15670952773@163.com)
Corresponding author: Email: shufeng0101@163.com
Received Date: 2022-05-06
Accepted Date: 2022-08-29

Available Online: 2022-10-29

Publish Date: 2024-01-05

Abstract

Abstract

For a sub-connected hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver with K subarrays and N antennas, there exists a challenging problem of how to rapidly remove phase ambiguity in only single time-slot. A direction of arrival (DOA) estimator of maximizing received power (Max-RP) is proposed to find the maximum value of K-subarray output powers, where each subarray is in charge of one sector, and the center angle of the sector corresponding to the maximum output is the estimated true DOA. To make an enhancement on precision, Max-RP plus quadratic interpolation (Max-RP-QI) method is designed. In the proposed Max-RP-QI, a quadratic interpolation scheme is adopted to interpolate the three DOA values corresponding to the largest three receive powers of Max-RP. To achieve the Cramer Rao lower bound, a Root-MUSIC plus Max-RP-QI scheme is developed. Simulation results show that the proposed three methods eliminate the phase ambiguity during one time-slot and also show low computational complexities. The proposed Root-MUSIC plus Max-RP-QI scheme can reach the Cramer Rao lower bound, and the proposed Max-RP and Max-RP-QI are still some performance losses 2–4 dB compared to the Cramer Rao lower bound.
- Hybrid analog and digital,
- Direction of arrival,
- Massive hybrid multiple-input multiple-output,
- Phase ambiguity,
- Low computational complexity

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