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Additional degree of freedom in phased-MIMO radar signal design using space-time codes

  • Vahdani, Roholah (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology) ;
  • Bizaki, Hossein Khaleghi (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology) ;
  • Joshaghani, Mohsen Fallah (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology)
  • Received : 2020.02.01
  • Accepted : 2020.08.12
  • Published : 2021.08.01
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Abstract

In this paper, an additional degree of freedom in phased multi-input multi-output (phased-MIMO) radar with any arbitrary desired covariance matrix is proposed using space-time codes. By using the proposed method, any desired transmit covariance matrix in MIMO radar (phased-MIMO radars) can be realized by employing fully correlated base waveforms such as phased-array radars and simply extending them to different time slots with predesigned phases and amplitudes. In the proposed method, the transmit covariance matrix depends on the base waveform and space-time codes. For simplicity, a base waveform can be selected arbitrarily (ie, all base waveforms can be fully correlated, similar to phased-array radars). Therefore, any desired covariance matrix can be achieved by using a very simple phased-array structure and space-time code in the transmitter. The main advantage of the proposed scheme is that it does not require diverse uncorrelated waveforms. This considerably reduces transmitter hardware and software complexity and cost. One the receiver side, multiple signals can be analyzed jointly in the time and space domains to improve the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio.

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