• DocumentCode
    2385506
  • Title

    Performance comparison for constrained radar waveform design

  • Author

    Frost, Shaun W. ; Rigling, Brian

  • Author_Institution
    Sensors Directorate, Air Force Res. Labs., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    23-27 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    724
  • Lastpage
    728
  • Abstract
    With more users populating the frequency spectrum and less available contiguous bandwidth, radar and communication waveforms are slowly forced to become more efficient at using their available frequencies. In this paper, unconstrained algorithms for jointly designing complex digital transmit wave forms and receive filters are considered. Varying a convex weight trades performance between signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio (SINR) and sidelobe levels. Through an empirical study, performance for constrained radar waveform design is established for an instantiation of the interference spectrum.
  • Keywords
    radar interference; radar signal processing; SINR; complex digital transmit waveform; constrained radar waveform design; convex weight trade performance; frequency spectrum; interference spectrum; receive filter; sidelobe level; signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio; Algorithm design and analysis; Gain; Interference; Joints; Optimization; Radar; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radar Conference (RADAR), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Kansas City, MO
  • ISSN
    1097-5659
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8901-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RADAR.2011.5960633
  • Filename
    5960633