Software-defined radar for MIMO and adaptive waveform applications

Author

Frankford, Mark T. ; Majurec, Ninoslav ; Johnson, Joel T.

Author_Institution

ElectroScience Lab., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

10-14 May 2010

Firstpage

724

Lastpage

728

Abstract

The development of a software-defined radar testbed is described. The testbed is to be used to explore advanced techniques such as multiple-input multiple-output radar and adaptive waveforms. The system features a fully programmable, dual-channel, arbitrary pulsed waveform generator with a quadrature downconverting receiver. The system can generate waveforms of up to 500 MHz instantaneous bandwidth at a center frequency tunable from 2-18 GHz. The RF front end features two independent transmit and receive channels that can be multiplexed between four dual-polarized transmit and four dual-polarized receive antennas.

Keywords

MIMO radar; telecommunication channels; test equipment; waveform analysis; waveform generators; MIMO radar; RF front end; adaptive waveform applications; arbitrary pulsed waveform generator; dual-polarized receiving antennas; frequency 2 GHz to 18 GHz; multiple-input multiple-output radar; quadrature downconverting receiver; receiving channels; software-defined radar testbed; transmitting channels; Antenna arrays; Application software; Bandwidth; Digital signal processing; MIMO; Radar antennas; Radar applications; Radio frequency; Receiving antennas; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5811-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2010.5494525

Filename

5494525