To estimate the large number of sources using an array of lesser number of sensors is an important problem and of interest to many researchers. This problem has also been tackled with the virtual array based approach where the covariance and cumulant lags provide a virtual sensor. Here, an important parameter which affects the parameter estimation accuracy and latency is weight function. The weight function is defined as the frequency of occurrence of each virtual sensor in the virtual array. We provide the close-form expression of higher order virtual array corresponding to linear array. Afterwards, we have analytically evaluated the weight function of virtual array and study the effect of the weight function on parameter estimation. Simulation results show the parameter estimation accuracy is significantly improve with high weight function.

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