Joint Detection and Angle Estimation for Multiple Jammers in Beamspace Massive MIMO

TL;DR

This paper introduces an iterative GLRT-based method for joint detection and angle estimation of multiple jammers in beamspace MIMO systems, effectively suppressing interference and sidelobes.

Contribution

It proposes a novel low-complexity iterative detection algorithm that enhances jammer detection and angle estimation in complex MIMO environments.

Findings

Outperforms existing benchmarks in jammer suppression.

Effective in medium-to-high jamming-to-noise ratio scenarios.

Reduces sidelobes and interference from irrelevant angles.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the joint detection and angle estimation problem for beamspace multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with multiple random jamming targets. An iterative low-complexity generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) is proposed by transforming the composite multiple hypothesis test on the projected vector into a series of binary hypothesis tests based on the spatial covariance matrix. In each iteration, the detector implicitly inhibits the mainlobe effects of the previously detected jammers by utilizing the estimated angles and average jamming-to-signal ratios. This enables the detection of a new potential jammer and the identification of its corresponding spatial covariance. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing benchmarks by suppressing sidelobes of the detected jammers and interference from irrelevant angles, especially in medium-to-high jamming-to-noise ratio scenarios.