Session 2: Adaptive Beamforming Theory
Date: 16 March 2000
Time: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

2.1
Fast Rank-Adaptive Beamforming

T. McWhorter, M. Clark (Mission Research Corporation, USA)
[abstract]

2.2
Mean Convergence Rate of a Decision Directed Adaptive Beamformer with Gaussian Interference

T. Biedka (Raytheon Systems Company, USA)
J. Reed, W. Tranter (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA)
[abstract]

2.3
MVDR Adaptive Sidelobes:  Extending Ruze's Formula and Providing an Exact Calculation of the Probability of Sidelobe Suppression

C. Richmond (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
[abstract]

2.4
Statistical Performance of the MVDR Beamformer in the Presence of Diagonal Loading

L. Fertig (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
[abstract]

2.5
The Properties of Adaptive Algorithms with Time Varying Weights
M. Zatman (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
[abstract]

2.6
Local Polymomial Approximation Based Beamforming for Localization of Rapidly Moving Sources

V. Katkovnik (University of Tampere, Finland)
A. Gershman (McMaster University, Canada)
[abstract]