Adaptive Transmit and Receive Beamforming for Interference Mitigation

We consider adaptive transmit and receive beampattern design for array radar systems. While adaptive processing is primarily employed for only receive beamforming in conventional design, we propose a fully adaptive approach involving jointly selecting the transmit correlation matrix and receive beamformer by maximizing the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). The motivation of utilizing adaptive processing at the transmitter is that with imprecise knowledge of the interference (e. g., due to limited training data), only relying on adaptive receive beamforming may be inadequate for effective interference cancellation, whereas joint adaptive transmit and receive beamforming can afford a stronger ability to handle the interference. Simulations are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed joint beamforming approach.