Nested algorithms for joint DOD and DOA estimation in bistatic MIMO radar

摘要

Abstract This paper presents two nested algorithms—one based on the Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Technique (ESPRIT) algorithm and the other one on the maximum likelihood estimation—for joint direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in bistatic multiple-input multiple-output radar. Both of the proposed nested algorithms interweaves signal grouping schemes and DOD/DOA estimation. Thereby, in each stage only DODs or DOAs, but not both, need to be estimated, and thus the complexity called for can be reduced. Also, the signals in each group have close DOAs, yet diverse DODs, and vice versa, so both DODs and DOAs can be precisely estimated even some of them are very close. Additionally, the estimated DODs and DOAs are automatically paired together without extra computations. Also, for the proposed nested-ML, a non-iterative importance sampling-based ML estimator is developed which is ensured to attain global optimum. Simulation results show that the proposed nested-ESPRIT can provide competing performance, yet with much lower complexity compared with the main state-of-the-art works; whereas, nested-ML can reach the Cramer–Rao lower bound with slightly higher complexity.