Array spatial thinning for interference mitigation by semidefinite programming. Nosrati, H., Aboutanios, E., & Smith, D. B. In 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pages 2230-2234, Aug, 2017.
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We study the problem of interference mitigation in a phased array, where a subset containing k out of a total of N receivers creates a virtual spatial null for an incoming interference. The signal-of-interest and interference are represented by their corresponding steering vectors, and an optimum subarray is chosen such that the two vectors are as orthogonal as possible. This optimization is a binary quadratic non-convex minimization. We propose a semidefinite programming method to find suboptimal solutions using an optimal randomized sampling strategy. We show that the proposed method provides solutions as good as an exhaustive search with a cubic computational complexity. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods by solving the problem in a higher dimensionality.

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