DOA Estimation with Non-Uniform Linear Arrays: A Phase-Difference Projection Approach
11 DOA Estimation with Non-Uniform Linear Arrays:A Phase-Difference Projection Approach
Hui Chen, Tarig Ballal, and Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
Abstract —Phase wrapping is a major problem in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using phase-difference observations.For a sensor pair with an inter-sensor spacing greater than half ofthe wavelength ( λ/ ) of the signal, phase wrapping occurs at cer-tain DOA angles leading to phase-difference ambiguities. Existingphase unwrapping methods exploit either frequency or spatialdiversity. These techniques work by imposing restrictions on theutilized frequencies or the receiver array geometry. In additionto sensitivity to noise and calibration errors, these methods mayalso have high computational complexity. We propose a grid-less phase-difference projection (PDP) DOA algorithm to overcomethese issues. The concept of wrapped phased-difference pattern (WPDP) is introduced, which allows the proposed algorithm tocompute most of the parameters required for DOA estimation inan offline manner, hence resulting in a superior computationalspeed in realtime. Simulation results demonstrate the excellentperformance of the proposed algorithm, both in terms of accuracyand speed. Index Terms —Direction of arrival, phase-difference, phaseambiguity, non-uniform linear arrays, CRLB.
I. I
NTRODUCTION
Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an important topicfor applications such as wireless sensor networks [1], indoorpositioning and tracking [2], Radar [3], wireless communica-tions [4], and so on. Many DOA estimation methods have beenproposed over the years, as reviewed in [5], [6]. The literaturefocuses largely on the narrow-band (or single-frequency) casewith uniform linear array (ULA) configurations. Extension tomulti-frequency scenarios is usually straightforward. On theother hand, the use of non-uniform linear arrays (NULAs) isalso popular. NULA configurations are often utilized to extendthe array aperture and consequently improve the array’s DOAresolution.In this letter, we focus on single-source DOA estimationwith NULAs. This scenario is motivated by a mmWave/THzmultiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication con-text. In these systems, flexible arrays are adopted to alleviatethe high computation and hardware costs (see switch-basedMIMO [7] and array-of-subarray (AOSA) structures [8]). Anantenna/subarray selection algorithm is applied, which oftenresults in a NULA structure. These systems also employbeamforming to reduce interference and provide a dominantline-of-sight (LOS) signal [9]. Hence, DOA estimation for asingle source observed at a NULA is an important problemfor mmWave/THz MIMO systems.
The authors are with the Division of Computer, Electrical and MathematicalScience & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technol-ogy (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, KSA. e-mail: ( { hui.chen; tarig.ahmed;tareq.alnaffouri } @kaust.edu.sa). The DOA estimation problem can be formulated as anoptimization of a cost function over a feasible DOA range.Usually, the process requires evaluating the cost function forthe whole DOA range, searching for that function’s optimum.Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) [10] and MUSIC [11]are two widely used methods that exemplify this approach.A drawback of this approach is that the search process canincrease the computational complexity, especially when highspatial resolution is desired.Time-delay estimation is a fast alternative solution to DOAestimation that can directly (without search) produce a DOAestimate [12]. The linear relationship between time delay andphase-difference makes it possible to utilize phase-differencemeasurements for DOA estimation. Phase-difference basedDOA estimation has been reported as an effective approachfor multi-carrier signals [13]. Nevertheless, phase-differencebased DOA estimation suffers from the occurrence of phasewrapping [14]–[16].The issue of phase wrapping can be resolved by exploitingthe frequency diversity available in multi-frequency signals[17], [18], while in single-frequency scenarios, the focus ofthis paper, spatial diversity can be leveraged. Examples ofspatial-diversity phase unwrapping methods include [14], [19],and the more recent q -order difference-set approach [20].A major drawback of these methods is that they require aspecialized sensor setup. Besides, these methods tend to besensitive to the phase noise effect.This letter proposes a phase-difference projection (PDP)method for DOA estimation using non-uniform linear arrays.The proposed method can be applied to an arbitrary lineararray configuration of more than two sensors. Simulationresults demonstrate that the proposed method outperformsa host of benchmark algorithms in terms of the root meansquared error (RMSE).The structure of this work is organized as follows. Section IIpresents the observation model, and Section III presents theproposed PDP method for DOA estimation. Simulations arepresented in Section IV before drawing conclusions in Sec-tion V. II. O BSERVATION M ODEL
We consider a complex sinusoidal source signal, with afrequency f and amplitude A , s ( t ) = Ae − j πft in the far field [21] of a non-uniform linear array of N sensors.The source impinges on the array from a direction θ ∈ ( − π/ , π/ rad. By using d uv to denote the distance betweentwo sensors ( u and v ) normalized by λ/ , where λ is the a r X i v : . [ ee ss . SP ] F e b signal wavelength, the received signal (vector) at time t canbe modelled as [22] x ( t ) = a ( θ ) s ( t ) + w ( t ) , (1)where a ( θ ) = [1 , e − jπd sin ( θ ) , ..., e − jπd N sin ( θ ) ] T is thearray steering vector, and w ( t ) is a vector of the additive noise.The principal phase-difference across a sensor pair, u and v , can be estimated from the u -th and v -th elements of x as ˆ ψ uv ( t ) = angle( x u ( t ) · x ∗ v ( t )) ∈ [ − π, π ) , (2)where ( · ) ∗ is the complex conjugate operation. For simplicity,and without loss of generality, we will focus on single-snapshot scenarios. Hence, we will drop the time variable t .To develop our proposed method, we start from noise-freeprincipal phase observations, ψ uv ( θ ) . These are related to theactual phase-difference, φ uv ( θ ) = πd uv sin( θ ) through ψ uv ( θ ) = mod( φ uv ( θ ) + π, π ) − π = πd uv sin( θ ) − πq uv , (3)where mod( · , · ) is the modulus operation, and q uv is an integervalue given by the rounding operation q uv = round (cid:18) πd uv sin( θ )2 π (cid:19) . (4)Based on (3), we observe that estimating the DOA from ψ uv ( θ ) requires knowledge of the integer q uv , which may notbe available if a method such as (2) is used to estimate ψ uv ( θ ) .When d uv ≤ , q uv = 0 for any θ . However, for d uv > , thelatter result is not guaranteed, except for a specific range of θ values. Since θ is unknown, ψ uv ( θ ) will always be ambiguous for d uv > .III. T HE P ROPOSED
PDP A
LGORITHM
A. Wrapped Phase-Difference Pattern (WPDP)
For an arbitrary source location θ ∈ [ − π/ , π/ , using(3), we can compute the principal phase-difference acrossreceiver pairs to create a (principal) phase-difference (PD)vector ψ ( θ ) = [ ψ uv ( θ )] T , u, v ∈ { , · · · N } , u < v . Assumingthat we utilize M ≤ (cid:0) N (cid:1) sensor pairs, we can simplifythe notations and write ψ ( θ ) = [ ψ m ( θ )] T , and q ( θ ) =[ q m ( θ )] T , m = 1 , · · · , M . We can also arrange the inter-sensordistances that corresponds to ψ ( θ ) in a vector d = [ d m ] T .Now, let us think of ψ ( θ ) as a point in an M -dimensionalspace. From (3), and for θ = 0 , we can see that ψ m ( θ ) =0 , q m ( θ ) = 0 , ∀ m ∈ { , · · · , M } . By gradually increasing θ starting from θ = 0 , we can see that ψ m ( θ ) increasein proportion to one another. The value of the vector q ( θ ) remains constant up to a certain θ value. Depending on thecorresponding inter-sensor spacing d m , an entry of q ( θ ) mayrepeatedly increase by a value equal to one as θ increases. Theopposite happens when θ changes in the negative direction.This creates different intervals of θ , each interval with a dis-tinct vector q that remains unchanged throughout the interval.Let us denote these intervals as Θ k , k ∈ { , · · · , K } . For any θ a , θ b ∈ Θ k , q ( θ a ) = q ( θ b ) = q k , (5) and based on (3), we can write δ ab = ψ ( θ a ) − ψ ( θ b ) = π d [sin( θ a ) − sin( θ b )] . (6)The values of q ( θ ) is the same (equals to q k ) for all θ ∈ Θ k ,and so (6) is valid for any choice of { θ a , θ b } ∈ Θ k . This in-dicates that each continuum given by ψ (Θ k ) , k ∈ { · · · , K } ,is a straight line; and that all the K straight lines point in thesame direction ± d / || d || , where || · || is the Euclidean norm.That is we have K parallel lines in M -dimensional space. Thenumber of lines K can be calculated as [13] K = 2 M (cid:88) i =1 ceil (cid:18) ψ i ( π/ − π π (cid:19) + 1 , (7)where ceil( · ) returns the nearest integer greater than or equalto the argument. Based on (5), all points on the k -th WPD linecan be compensated/unwrapped with the same unwrappingvector h k = 2 π q k . That is φ ( θ ) = ψ ( θ ) + h k , ∀ θ ∈ Θ k . (8)A procedure to compute h k will be detailed in the nextsubsection. Fig. 1 shows an example plot of ψ (Θ k ) for M = 2 . We refer to such a display as a wrapped phase-difference pattern (WPDP).Using simple geometry, we can see that all the lines ψ (Θ k ) are perpendicular to a hyperplane that contains the origin. Thishyperplane is defined by the equation d T ψ ( θ ) = d ψ ( θ ) + d ψ ( θ ) + · · · + d M ψ M ( θ ) = 0 . (9)Each line ψ (Θ k ) coincides with a projection point , p k , wherethe line intersects with the hyperplane. In the followingdiscussion, we show how to obtain these projection points.Given a principal observation vector ψ ( θ ) , the distancebetween this vector, treated as a point in M -dimensional space,and the hyperplane (9), is given by dist (cid:0) ψ ( θ ) , d T ψ = 0 (cid:1) = d T ψ ( θ ) || d || . (10)The projection point p ( θ ) of ψ ( θ ) on the hyperplane alongthe direction d / || d || can be obtained as p ( θ ) = project( ψ ( θ )) = ψ ( θ ) − d T ψ ( θ ) || d || · d || d || . (11)It is obvious that all points on the same WPD line are projectedto the same point on the projection hyperplane. However, foran observed noisy wrapped phase-difference vector ˆ ψ , (11)returns only a perturbed projection point ˆ p / ∈ { p k } . In thiscase, we pick the nearest projection point p z , where z = arg min k || p k − ˆ p || . (12)Now, the unbiased WPD ˜ ψ , which is the nearest point on theline with the projection point p k can be estimated as ˜ ψ = p z + d T ˆ ψ || d || · d || d || . (13)An illustration of a noise-free WPDP for an array of 3elements is depicted in Fig. 1. The sensors are separated byspacings of r = [0 , ∆ , ∆(1 + δ )] = [0 , . , . ( λ/ units, measured from the first sensor, where ∆ = 2 . , δ = 1 . ).Each WPDP point is formed as ψ ( θ ) = [ ψ ( θ ) , ψ ( θ )] T . Inthis figure, K = 5 WPD lines are displayed together with thecorresponding projection points, p k ( k = 1 , · · · , ). In this2-dimensional WPDP, the projection hyperplane is actually aline. The θ values for selected points are also quoted. We notethat for the middle line ( θ ∈ [ − o , o ] ), ψ ( θ ) = φ ( θ ) , i.e.,no phase-difference wrapping is occurring. For this line, ψ reaches the value π at around θ = 20 o , resulting in a jumpor wrapping when θ increases slightly. For the rest of thepoints that are located on the other lines, ψ ( θ ) (cid:54) = φ ( θ ) due tophase wrapping. Some compensation is needed to be able toperform DOA estimation. The following subsection addressesthis issue. Fig. 1. An example of a WPDP for M = 2 , ∆ = 2 . , δ = 1 . . B. Unwrapping Vectors
The unwrapping vector h k can be obtained by tracing theWPD lines. Together with their projection points, these linesare easily identified by their (known) direction unit vectors andstarting points. We can start from the point ψ ( − π/ , which,let us say, falls on the first line. The point where this lineintersects with the M-cube, whose boundaries are − π and π ,can easily be calculated. The intersection point determines thenext line’s starting point, which is obtained by wrapping thecoordinate of ψ that crosses the cube’s surface. A pseudocodefor calculating p k and h k is listed in Algorithm 1. Algorithm 1
Calculate h k , p k φ cur ← π d sin( − π/ , φ max ← π d sin( π/ j ← , change ← φ cur − wrap( φ cur ) while φ cur ( i ) < φ max ( i ) for all i = [1 , , ..., M ] do ψ b,j ← ψ cur h j ← change p j ← project( ψ b,j ) j ← j + 1 ind ← arg min i [( π − ψ cur ( i )) /d i ] ψ cur ← d ( π − ψ cur ( ind )) /d ind + ψ cur ψ cur ( ind ) ← ψ cur ( ind ) − π change ( ind ) ← change ( ind ) + 2 π φ cur = ψ cur + change return h k , p k ( k ∈ { , , ..., K = j − } ) C. The Proposed PDP DOA Estimation Algoirthm
The proposed DOA algorithm starts by initializing h k and p k using algorithm 1. Then, for a noisy WPD ˆ ψ , theunbiased WPD ˜ ψ can be obtained using (11)-(13). Next,the estimated unwrapped phase-difference vector ˆ φ can beobtained using (8). Finally, the DOA of the source can becalculated using (3). A pseudocode of the proposed DOAalgorithm is listed in Algorithm 2. (Matlab codes availablein Github ). Remark 1:
In Algorithm 2, we note that the bulk of thecomputational complexity lies in Step-1. This step needs tobe performed only once at the initial setup (offline). The restof the algorithm (online) steps are very simple. This makesthe proposed algorithm very computationally efficient.
Algorithm 2
PDP DOA Estimation Algorithm Initialize h - h K , p - p K using Algorithm 1 ˆ ψ ← angle( x u ( t ) · x ∗ v ( t )) for selected pairs (2) ˆ p ← ˆ ψ − d T ˆ ψ || d || · d || d || (11) z ← arg min k || p k − ˆ p || (12) ˜ ψ ← p z + d T ˆ ψ || d || · d || d || (13) ˆ φ ← ˜ ψ + h z (8) ˆ θ ← sin − (cid:18) ˆ φ πd (cid:19) (cid:18) ˆ φ i d i = ˆ φ j d j for all i, j (cid:19) (3) return ˆ θ (a) ∆ = 3 . , δ = 1 . (b) ∆ = 2 . , δ = 1 . Fig. 2. Visualization of two different WPDPs.
Remark 2:
Noise perturbation in WPD tends to drift a noisyWPD point away from its original (noise-free) WPD line.The proposed PDP algorithm associates a noisy point withthe closest projection point. Depending on the noise level,this might lead to a wrong (hard) decision. For a specificsignal frequency, the distance between the projection pointsis solely determined by the array layout, which can easilybe deduced from (11). The characteristics of different arrayconfigurations based on their WPDP structures can providean interesting tool for analyzing these arrays’ behavior fordifferent source locations. We illustrate the impact of arrayconfiguration in Fig. 2 which shows WPDP examples fortwo different array configurations with the same number ofelements ( r = [0 , ∆ , ∆(1 + δ )] ). From the figure, we cansee a significant difference in the WPDP structures for thetwo arrays as reflected in the number of projection points (a) r (b) r (c) r Fig. 3. RMSE for different DOA estimation algorithms tested over three different array configuration. and the inter-point distances, which impacts DOA estimationperformance. As an example, it is expected that recoveringa projection point correctly from noisy observations to beeasier for p in Fig. 2 (b) compared to the rest of theprojection points in both Fig. 2 (a) and (b). On the otherhand, in situations where two WPD lines overlap, the proposedalgorithm, or any other DOA estimation algorithm, will failto identify the source location. This happens when the arrayconfiguration is ambiguous for certain source locations [23].PDP inherently requires the setup to be unambiguous.IV. S IMULATION R ESULTS
In this section, we evaluate the performance of the pro-posed PDP DOA estimation algorithm given in Algorithm 2.Simulations were carried out for this purpose. The proposedalgorithm is compared with several benchmark methods, in-cluding the MUSIC algorithm [11], the spatial-diversity (SD)based algorithm [19], the q -order algorithm [20], maximumlikelihood estimation (MLE) [10], in addition to the Cram´er-Rao lower bound (CRLB). For a given sensor layout, and asource location θ , the CRLB is calculated as [10]CRLB = 12 π N SU sin( θ ) , U = 1 N N (cid:88) n =1 ( r n − ¯ r ) , (14)where S is the linear SNR, and r is an N × sensor spacingvector, r n and ¯ r are the n -th element and the average valueof r , respectively.To demonstrate the performance of various methods threedifferent sensor layouts with different number of sensors( N = 3 , , ) are considered. Namely, we test r =[0 , . , . , r = [0 , , . , . (setup from [20]) and r = [0 , , , , , , , , , (a non-redundant arrayfrom [24]), are shown in Fig. 3. The root mean squared error (RMSE) versus SNR is adopted as the performance metric,which is calculated from 5000 simulation trials at each SNRvalue. In each trial, the source location is generated randomlyfrom a uniform distribution between . ◦ to . ◦ . For theproposed method, M = (cid:0) N (cid:1) phase-difference estimates arecomputed using (2). For the MUSIC algorithm and MLE, toreduce the computational complexity, the search process isimplemented in two stages [10]: a coarse search (using a . ◦ or ◦ step) followed by a fine search (using a . ◦ step). The SD based algorithm works only for three sensors ( r ), whilethe q -order algorithm works for r and r . In all simulationtrials, and for all methods, a single snapshot is used to estimatethe source location. Fig. 3 plots the RMSE performance, whileTable I lists the average runtime, in milliseconds (ms).For the configurations r and r , the proposed PDP algo-rithm matches the RMSE of the MLE for the finer searchgrid, which coincides with the CRLB. PDP and MLE out-perform all the other methods. The proposed algorithm alsoshows superiority in terms of computational complexity; itis substantially faster than both MLE and MUSIC. The SDand q -order algorithms are slightly faster than the proposedalgorithm; however, their RMSE performance is inferior.For the configuration r , the proposed algorithm does notmatch the MLE performance but still outperforms MUSIC interms of the RMSE. This time, when the coarse search isperformed using a grid of ◦ , MLE exhibits a slightly fasterexecution time compared to the proposed method. This can beattributed to the fact that, in this case, PDP uses all the pair-wise combinations of sensors. Apparently, this is redundantsince the number of pairs becomes excessively large as N increases. The proposed method’s computational complexitycan be further reduced by judiciously choosing a sufficientsubset of the sensor pairs to achieve adequate performance. TABLE IA
VERAGE PROCESSING TIME OF DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS [ MS ] Algorithms M=3 M=4 M=10
PDP 0.024 0.041 1.084SD 0.008 - -MUSIC ( . ◦ ) 2.972 3.541 4.315MLE ( . ◦ ) 2.003 2.123 2.515MLE ( ◦ ) 0.753 0.780 0.9232-Q Order 0.004 0.020 - V. C
ONCLUSION
A phase-difference projection (PDP) based direction ofarrival (DOA) algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithmprojects the phase-difference observations measured acrosssensor pairs on a pre-defined hyperplane determined by thearray geometry. Based on this projection, DOA estimation canbe achieved in a simple and computationally efficient manner.
Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can matchmaximum likelihood estimation and outperform MUSIC whilemaintaining a substantially higher computational speed.The results can be further improved by utilizing multiplefrequencies and multiple snapshots of the signal. Future direc-tions include performance analysis and sensor-pair selectionfor larger receiver arrays.R
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