Ambiguity Function of the Transmit Beamspace-Based MIMO Radar

DOI10.1109/TSP.2015.2439241zbMATH Open1394.94879arXiv1503.06614OpenAlexW2282918137MaRDI QIDQ4580759FDOQ4580759

Yongzhe Li, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, V. Koivunen

Publication date: 22 August 2018

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we derive an ambiguity function (AF) for the transmit beamspace (TB)-based multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) radar for the case of far-field targets and narrow-band waveforms. The effects of transmit coherent processing gain and waveform diversity are incorporated into the AF definition. To cover all the phase information conveyed by different factors, we introduce the equivalent transmit phase centers. The newly defined AF serves as a generalized AF form for which the phased-array (PA) and traditional MIMO radar AFs are important special cases. We establish relationships among the defined TB-based MIMO radar AF and the existing AF results including the Woodward's AF, the AFs defined for the traditional colocated MIMO radar, and also the PA radar AF, respectively. Moreover, we compare the TB-based MIMO radar AF with the square-summation-form AF definition and identify two limiting cases to bound its 'clear region' in Doppler-delay domain that is free of sidelobes. Corresponding bounds for these two cases are derived, and it is shown that the bound for the worst case is inversely proportional to the number of transmitted waveforms K, whereas the bound for the best case is independent of K. The actual 'clear region' of the TB-based MIMO radar AF depends on the array configuration and is in between of the worst- and best-case bounds. We propose a TB design strategy to reduce the levels of the AF sidelobes, and show in simulations that proper design of the TB matrix leads to reduction of the relative sidelobe levels of the TB-based MIMO radar AF.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06614

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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