Transmit Subaperturing for MIMO Radars With Co-Located Antennas

被引:118
作者
Li, Hongbin [1 ]
Himed, Braham [2 ]
机构
[1] Stevens Inst Technol, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA
[2] AFRL RYRT, Dayton, OH 45433 USA
关键词
Adaptive processing for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radars; MIMO radars; subaperture; transmit beamforming; COHERENT;
D O I
10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2038967
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present a transmit subaperturing (TS) approach for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radars with co-located antennas. The proposed scheme divides the transmit array elements into multiple groups, each group forms a directional beam and modulates a distinct waveform, and all beams are steerable and point to the same direction. The resulting system is referred to as a TS-MIMO radar. A TS-MIMO radar is a tunable system that offers a continuum of operating modes from the phased-array radar, which achieves the maximum directional gain but the least interference rejection ability, to the omnidirectional transmission based MIMO radar, which can handle the largest number of interference sources but offers no directional gain. Tuning of the TS-MIMO system can be easily made by changing the configuration of the transmit subapertures, which provides a direct tradeoff between the directional gain and interference rejection power of the system. The performance of the TS-MIMO radar is examined in terms of the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of an adaptive beamformer in an interference and training limited environment, where we show analytically how the output SINR is affected by several key design parameters, including the size/number of the subapertures and the number of training signals. Our results are verified by computer simulation and comparisons are made among various operating modes of the proposed TS-MIMO system.
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