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08 May 2022

Null directions are important parameters for differential beamformers, which play an important role on the beamforming performance. In this paper, we investigate the performance of differential beamformers as a function of the null directions. We first derive the directivity factor (DF) as an explicit function of null and show that the DF decreases to 0 if any null approaches to the desired look direction. We then validate the theoretical analysis through simulations using the beampattern, DF and signal-to-interference gain as the performance measures. The results show that: 1) the performance of a differential beamformer degrades significantly if there is any null close to the desired look direction; 2) with a fixed null direction, increasing the order of the differential beamformer can help improve performance.

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