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  • Wireless Communications
  • Sensor Networks

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  • Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation is crucial for wireless sensor array networks (WSAN).
  • Existing methods face challenges with data transmission over lossy wireless channels and computational complexity at sensor nodes.
  • Exploiting spatial and spectral correlations in sensor data can enhance DoA estimation reliability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel compressive sensing joint sparse representation direction of arrival estimation (CSJSR-DoA) approach for WSAN.
  • To leverage joint spatial and spectral correlations for reliable DoA estimation from randomly-sampled acoustic sensor data.
  • To reduce data transmission requirements and avoid complex source coding at remote sensor nodes.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a CSJSR-DoA approach utilizing joint spatial and spectral correlations.
  • Derived an upper bound for the coherence of incoming sensor signals for linear array configurations to ensure spatial sparsity.
  • Derived the Cramér-Rao bound to quantify the theoretical performance of the CSJSR-DoA estimator.

Main Results:

  • The CSJSR-DoA approach enables reliable DoA estimation using randomly-sampled acoustic sensor data.
  • Random sampling reduces data transmission over wireless channels and eliminates the need for source coding at sensor nodes.
  • Theoretical analysis provided constraints for spatial sparsity and quantified estimation performance.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed CSJSR-DoA approach offers significant performance improvements over existing compressive sensing methods.
  • Validated through simulations and field experiments on a prototype WSAN platform.
  • Demonstrates the effectiveness of exploiting joint spatial and spectral correlations for enhanced DoA estimation in WSAN.