Performance analysis of the minimum variance beamformer in the presence of steering vector errors

We present an analysis of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the output of the minimum variance beamformer in the presence of steering vector errors. The analysis yields an explicit expression for the SINR in terms of the variance of the steering vector errors and the other parameters affecting performance, including signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), interference-to-noise ratio (INR), signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), angular separation between desired signal and interference, array size and shape, correlation between desired signal and interference, and finite sample size.

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