Reduced-Dimension Robust Capon Beamforming Using Krylov-Subspace Techniques

We present low-complexity, quickly converging robust adaptive beamformers, for beamforming large arrays in snapshot deficient scenarios. The proposed algorithms are derived by combining data-dependent Krylov-subspace-based dimensionality reduction, using the Powers-of-R or conjugate gradient (CG) techniques, with ellipsoidal uncertainty set based robust Capon beamformer methods. Further, we provide a detailed computational complexity analysis and consider the efficient implementation of automatic, online dimension-selection rules. We illustrate the benefits of the proposed approaches using simulated data.