Radar Waveform Design in Active Communications Channel
Authors
Romero, Ric A.
Shepherd, Kevin D.
Subjects
waveform design
spectrum sharing
cognitive radar
electronic warfare
spectrum management
spectrum sharing
cognitive radar
electronic warfare
spectrum management
Advisors
Date of Issue
2013
Date
2013
Publisher
IEEE
Language
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate spectrally adaptive
radar transmit waveform design and its effects on an active
communication system. We specifically look at waveform design
for point targets. The transmit waveform is optimized by
accounting for the modulation spectrum of the communication
system while trying to efficiently use the remaining spectrum.
With the use of spectrally-matched radar waveform, we show
that the SER detection performance of the communication system
is minimally affected compared to the SER performance with
a classical non-adaptive pulsed radar waveform. Moreover, we
show the detection performance of the adaptive waveform is less
impacted by the active communication compared to that of the
pulsed radar waveform design. In other words the radar is able
to coexist with a friendly communication system and thus share
the spectrum with a friendly communication system.
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Article
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Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
5 p.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.