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344 IEEE TRANSACIIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. VOL 41. NO I, JANUARY I Y Y ? Beamspace Root-MUSIC Michael D. Zoltowski, Member, IEEE, Gregory M. Kautz, Student Member, IEEE, and Seth D. Silverstein. Senior Member, IEEE Abstract-Motivated by the superior performance of Root- MUSIC relative to spectral MUSIC and ESPRIT in a uniform linear array scenario and the many advantages of operating in beamspace, a beamspace implementation of Root-MUSIC is de- veloped. To facilitate reduced computational complexity, pro- cedures are presented for designing orthogonal matrix beam- formers composed of conjugate centrosymmetric weight vectors and producing beams exhibiting common out-of-band nulls. It is shown that the former property enables one to work with the real part of the beamspace sample covariance matrix irrespec- tive of the angle-of-arrival estimation algorithm employed. The latter property enables one to work with a reduced degree poly- nomial in the final stage of Root-MUSIC. The N x B discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix beamformer composed of B columns of the N x N DFT matrix, where N is the number of elements, is employed as a prototype matrix beamformer pos- sessing the aforementioned properties. It is used to establish these two results and to derive other matrix beamformers hav- ing the desired features plus additional features, such as pro- ducing beams with reduced out-of-band sidelobes and/or com- mon nulls at prescribed locations. Simulations are presented comparing the performance of beamspace Root-MUSIC with that of element space Root-MUSIC and that of beamspace spec- tral MUSIC. I. INTRODUCTION OOT-MUSIC [l] , [ lo] is a variation of MUSIC [ l l ] R applicable in a uniformly spaced, linear array (ULA) scenario that offers significant advantages over spectral MUSIC [lo]. Determination of the source angle estimates via spectral MUSIC requires the identification and accu- rate localization of multiple peaks of a 1-D spa