Predicted Detection Performance of MIMO Radar

Author

Du, Chaoran ; Thompson, John S. ; Petillot, Yvan

Author_Institution

Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh

Volume

15

fYear

2008

fDate

6/30/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

86

Abstract

It has been shown that multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems can improve target detection performance significantly by exploiting the spatial diversity gain. We introduce the system model in which the radar target is composed of a finite number of small scatterers and derive the formula to evaluate the theoretical probability of detection for the system having an arbitrary array-target configuration. The results can be used to predict the detection performance of the actual MIMO radar without time-consuming simulations.

Keywords

MIMO communication; diversity reception; radar; MIMO radar; arbitrary array-target configuration; multiple-input multiple-output radar systems; spatial diversity gain; target detection performance; Diversity methods; Educational institutions; Enterprise resource planning; Linear antenna arrays; MIMO; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar scattering; Radar theory; Receiving antennas; Detection performance; finite scatterers model; multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO); radar; spatial diversity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9908

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LSP.2007.910312

Filename

4418385