Quantifying the benefits of complex radar resource management techniques for airborne electronically scanned radars

This paper describes a study aimed at quantifying the performance improvement achievable through use of complex radar resource management schemes, instead of basic schedulers, for an electronically scanned airborne surveillance radar system. Through computer simulation of representative scenarios, it is demonstrated that a highly adaptive approach, based upon an entropy metric, enables a radar to establish tracks at significantly longer ranges whilst maintaining overall surveillance performance.