2D DOA Estimation for Uniform Rectangular Array With One-bit Measurement

Abstract

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an interesting research topic with various applications. Existing algorithms provide superior estimation performance, at the cost of accurate quantified measurements. In this paper, we stress the problem of 2D DOA estimation for uniform rectangular array using one-bit measurements. The relationship between the covariance matrices of one-bit measurement and that of the accurately quantified measurement is analyzed in detail, from which we find the existing tensor algorithm can be directly applied. As a result, a one-bit parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) estimator is proposed. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.