A smart antenna system for direction of arrival estimation based on a support vector regression

In this paper, the use of a smart antenna system for the estimation of the directions of arrival (DOAs) of multiple waves is considered. An efficient method based on the support vector regression is proposed, in which the mapping among the outputs of the array and the DOAs of unknown plane waves is approximated by means of a family of support vector machines. Several numerical results are provided for the validation of the proposed approach, considering multiple impinging waves both in noiseless and noisy environments.

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