Joint Blind Calibration and Time-Delay Estimation for Multiband Ranging
T. Kazaz (TU Delft - Signal Processing Systems)
M. Coutino (TU Delft - Signal Processing Systems)
Gerard Janssen (TU Delft - Signal Processing Systems)
A. J. van der Veen (TU Delft - Signal Processing Systems)
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Abstract
In this paper, we focus on the problem of blind joint calibration of multiband transceivers and time-delay (TD) estimation of multipath channels. We show that this problem can be formulated as a particular case of covariance matching. Although this problem is severely ill-posed, prior information about radio-frequency chain distortions and multipath channel sparsity is used for regularization. This approach leads to a biconvex optimization problem, which is formulated as a rank-constrained linear system and solved by a simple group Lasso algorithm. Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm provides better calibration and higher resolution for TD estimation than current state-of-the-art methods.