| Abstract: | Nested linear array enables to enhance localization resolution and achieve under-determined direction of arrival(DOA)estimation. In this paper,the traditional two-level nested linear array is improved to achieve more degrees of freedom(DOFs)and better angle estimation performance. Furthermore,a computationally efficient DOA estimation algorithm is proposed. The discrete Fourier transform(DFT)method is utilized to obtain coarse DOA estimates,and subsequently,fine DOA estimates are achieved by spatial smoothing multiple signals classification(SS-MUSIC)algorithm. Compared to SS-MUSIC algorithm,the proposed algorithm has the same estimation accuracy with lower computational complexity because the coarse DOA estimates enable to shrink the range of angle spectral search. In addition,the estimation of the number of signals is not required in advance by DFT method. Extensive simulation results testify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. |
