Bayesian Compressive Sensing for DOA Estimation using the Difference Coarray

Abstract-In this paper, we utilize Bayesian Compressive Sensing (BCS) for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on the coarray. This enables estimation of more sources than the number of physical antennas. We adopt the covariance vectorization technique to construct the received signal vectors of coarrays for both fully and partially augmentable arrays. We then apply the single measurement vector BCS (SMV-BCS) for DOA estimation. Supporting simulation results for both sparse linear arrays and circular arrays demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of high resolution and estimation accuracy compared to the MUSIC and sparse signal reconstruction based methods