Constrained Hung-Turner adaptive beam-forming algorithm with additional robustness to wideband and moving jammers

We present a new modification of the Hung-Turner (HT) adaptive beam-forming algorithm, providing additional robustness of a narrowband adaptive array in wideband and moving-jammer scenarios. The robustness is achieved by involving the derivative constraints toward the jammer directions in the conventional Hung-Turner (1983) algorithm. The important advantage of the constraints used is that they do not require any a priori information about jammer directions. The computer simulations with wideband and moving jammers show that the proposed algorithm provides the significant improvement of the adaptive array performance as compared with the conventional HT algorithm. At the same time, for a moderate order of derivative constraints, the new algorithm has a computational efficiency, comparable with the conventional HT algorithm.