Waveform Design for MIMO Radar with Space-Time Constraints

We consider the problem of designing waveforms for MIMO-radar, where both the temporal and spatial characteristics of the waveform need to be determined. In other words, we design a set of different waveforms transmitted by different antennas. In previous works design procedures were presented where the resulting waveforms were constrained only by transmit power. Here we extend this work to include arbitrary linear constraints in the form of a space-time basis for the waveforms. We demonstrate that properly selecting and applying these constraints leads to waveforms with better temporal and spatial response (e.g., range response and beam pattern) than using previously proposed design procedures.