In the environment with coherent interferences, the common beamforming method has poor ability to suppress coherent interferences by estimating accurately the direction of arrival (DOA) of coherent signal and desired signal. The new anti-jamming technology based on multiple constrained least mean-square (MC-LMS) algorithm is proposed by the analysis of the coherent signal and the weighted vector two quadratic performance functions in the paper. The method uses MC-LMS algorithms calculates the weights for weighting the output of array signals, so the coherent interferences are suppressed by analyzing its spectrum. The algorithm has low computational complexity, high robustness and convergence. The results of simulation show that the coherent interference could be suppressed; the effectiveness of the proposed method are demonstrated with the complex electromagnetic environment.
Keywords-uniform circular array; coherent interference; Multiple Constrained Least Mean Square algorithm; beam pattern
. INTRODUCTIONWith the wide application of satellite navigation systems, GPS interference and anti-interference has become a hotspot in the field of satellite navigation. Because multipath effects and the enemy intends impose interference, there will be a coherent interference signal in the complex electromagnetic environment, which highly decreases the performance of receiving system. Therefore, How to effectively inhibit coherent interference in real time has become one of key technology to safeguard navigation receiver system to work.When the conventional beamforming algorithm processes coherent signal, there will be a signal destructive phenomenon, which make it difficult to accurately locate the interference direction. In order to suppress jamming, the literature [1] analyzes adaptive spatial smoothing algorithm and verified its anti-interference performance. However, this method can only be applied to the uniform linear array antenna, not applied to the flow-type antenna of the other arrays, such as a circular array rectangular plane array and other anti-jamming antenna in which coherent interference can't be suppresses and limits its application. The literature [2] proposed an optimal beamforming method which is applicable to any array structure, but need to estimate the direction of interference signal and preprocess the received data and it's hard to be achieved. The literature [3] puts forward a coherent beamforming technology based on uniform circular array, which virtually parallel moves the antenna array at the first, then inhibits coherent interference using the principle of shift beam smoothing forming and has good but large number of operations and complex calculations performance, will be faced if we want to know the direction of arrival (DOA) of signal. The method of combination of MC-LMS algorithm to form airspace adaptive nulling anti-jamming based on 4-element Y-type uniform circular array UCA is adapted, and thoroughly derives and proves the effect degree of the coherent interference on satellite receiv...