Beamforming & Modelling Signal, Interference and Noise

Hi,

I am trying to implement adaptive beamforming algorithms such as Robust Capon (MMSE) with the following type of signal space:

1. All the "Signal" that I (can) receive is within a cone of sight.
2. Want to place a null beyond that cone, or atleast minimize, basically anything coming not from within the cone is "Noise".
3. I can move my beam spatially within the cone so as to change the signal of interest.

So, why I say all the signal I "can" receive is because for a particular observation I want to treat everything else within the cone of sight as "Interference" and I do not want to null it out. However I do want to null out the all the signal from outside the cone of sight.

Also, currently my simulation is in 1-D, so I have a direction of signal, direction of interference, which I input as the angle.

Please help me how can I model such a system first in 1-D, that in turn would make my signal coming from a range of angles and not a cone. And then how can I go ahead and expand it to work for 2-D.

Thanks a lot for your time!
-Vish

hi friend,

nice to message you. actually iam also suffering from the same problem. my question is how to study the beamforming using simulation. i mean to ask what softwares you using?

I use MATLAB and the EM simulations are created using C with some internal optics modelling code