A lower bound of DOA-estimates by an array randomly subject to sensor-breakdown

• Main Authors: Wong, Thomas Kainam, Wu, Ivan Yue, Hsu, Yu-Sheng, Song, Yang
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97846; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11362
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper introduces a new metric, to approximately lower-bound the error-variance in the estimation of an incident source's direction-of-arrival (DOA), for a sensor-array subject to random breakdown in its individual sensors. This new metric equals a weighted sum of Cramér-Rao bounds, each co...