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Main Authors: Tang, Bo, Li, Da, Wu, Wenjun, Saini, Astha, Babu, Prabhu, Stoica, Petre
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07270
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author Tang, Bo
Li, Da
Wu, Wenjun
Saini, Astha
Babu, Prabhu
Stoica, Petre
author_facet Tang, Bo
Li, Da
Wu, Wenjun
Saini, Astha
Babu, Prabhu
Stoica, Petre
contents This paper investigates the transmit beamforming design for multiple-input multiple-output systems to support both multi-target localization and multi-user communications. To enhance the target localization performance, we derive the asymptotic Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) for target angle estimation by assuming that the receive array is linear and uniform. Then we formulate a beamforming design problem based on minimizing an upper bound on the asymptotic CRB (which is shown to be equivalent to {maximizing} the harmonic mean of the weighted beampattern responses at the target directions). Moreover, we impose a constraint on the SINR of each received communication signal to guarantee reliable communication performance. Two iterative algorithms are derived to tackle the non-convex design problem: one is based on the alternating direction method of multipliers, and the other uses the majorization-minimization technique to solve an equivalent minimax problem. Numerical results show that, through elaborate dual-function beamforming matrix design, the proposed algorithms can simultaneously achieve superior angle estimation performance as well as high-quality multi-user communications.
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spellingShingle Dual-Function Beamforming Design For Multi-Target Localization and Reliable Communications
Tang, Bo
Li, Da
Wu, Wenjun
Saini, Astha
Babu, Prabhu
Stoica, Petre
Signal Processing
This paper investigates the transmit beamforming design for multiple-input multiple-output systems to support both multi-target localization and multi-user communications. To enhance the target localization performance, we derive the asymptotic Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) for target angle estimation by assuming that the receive array is linear and uniform. Then we formulate a beamforming design problem based on minimizing an upper bound on the asymptotic CRB (which is shown to be equivalent to {maximizing} the harmonic mean of the weighted beampattern responses at the target directions). Moreover, we impose a constraint on the SINR of each received communication signal to guarantee reliable communication performance. Two iterative algorithms are derived to tackle the non-convex design problem: one is based on the alternating direction method of multipliers, and the other uses the majorization-minimization technique to solve an equivalent minimax problem. Numerical results show that, through elaborate dual-function beamforming matrix design, the proposed algorithms can simultaneously achieve superior angle estimation performance as well as high-quality multi-user communications.
title Dual-Function Beamforming Design For Multi-Target Localization and Reliable Communications
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07270