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Abstract

A triply primed array (TPA) is configured on three mutually primed integers (N₁, N₂ and N₃), which operates with O(N₁N₂N₃) degree-of-freedoms to estimate the direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) of multiple incident quasi-stationary signals. The set of unique and contiguous lags of the proposed TPA is searched and verified. Simulation results verify that the proposed TPA can detect more incident signals with higher accuracy than its compatible counterparts.

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Dr. Kai-Chieh Hsu

Prof. Jean-Fu Kiang