ulsive Noise Model for Array

Impulsive intelference has been measured recently in some wireless communication environments. Physicallybased impulsive interference models have been lacking for cases where the antenna elements in an array are closely spaced. Such cases are important when spatial processing will be employed. In these closely-spaced element cases, the interference observations may be statistically dependent from antenna lo antenna. A model for these closely-spaced element cases is developed using some ideas originally proposed by David Middleton. The model developed here is very general and so it appears to be applicable to a wide varieq of physical situations. It assumes intelference sources which are Poisson distributed in space and time, and it includes an additive Gaussian background component.