Generalized Non-Redundant Sparse Array Designs

We present novel generalized non-redundant sparse array design strategies that achieve the highest possible number of degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. These array designs offer difference co-arrays that do not contain any lag redundancies except the unavoidable redundancies at lag zero. We first develop a co-array-based zero-redundancy design rule which serves as a baseline for constructing these non-redundant...