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OFDM MIMO radar waveform design for targets identification

  • Bai, Ting (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Centre) ;
  • Zheng, Nae (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Centre) ;
  • Chen, Song (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Centre)
  • Received : 2018.01.09
  • Accepted : 2018.04.23
  • Published : 2018.10.01
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Abstract

In order to obtain better target identification performance, an efficient waveform design method with high range resolution and low sidelobe level for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is proposed in this paper. First, the wideband CP-based OFDM signal is transmitted on each antenna to guarantee large bandwidth and high range resolution. Next, a complex orthogonal design (COD) is utilized to achieve code domain orthogonality among antennas, so that the spatial diversity can be obtained in MIMO radar, and only the range sidelobe on the first antenna needs suppressing. Furthermore, sidelobe suppression is expressed as an optimization problem. The integrated sidelobe level (ISL) is adopted to construct the objective function, which is solved using the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) algorithm. The numerical results demonstrate the superiority in performance (high resolution, strict orthogonality, and low sidelobe level) of the proposed method compared to existing algorithms.

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