Eigenanalysis interference cancellers with robust capabilities

Abstract The maximum rejection of interference in the presence of steering angle error for adaptive array processing is considered. It has been shown that eigenanalysis interference cancellers (EICs) possess the advantage of providing maximal suppression of undesired interference with fast convergence over conventional adaptive beamformers. However, the performance of EICs is also very sensitive to steering angle error when the number of signal sources is overestimated. We present an artificial source injection technique to make EICs have robust capabilities against steering angle error. Modifications for enhancing the proposed technique are also presented. It is shown that the proposed technique can alleviate the drawback like the loss of degrees of freedom when using existing EICs. Simulation examples are provided for illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed technique.