Joint Design of Transmit Waveforms and Receive Filters for MIMO Radar Space Time Adaptive Processing
This paper considers the joint design of transmit waveforms and receive filters for airborne multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar systems. The aim is to maximize the output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) such that we can achieve enhanced detection performance for a slow moving target that might be obscured by clutter and jamming. We devise a cyclic algorithm to tackle the non convex joint design problem. Considering practical implementation issues, we extend the algorithm to deal with constrained designs (i.e. the design of waveforms under a constant envelope constraint and a similarity constraint, respectively) The convergence of all the devised algorithms is guaranteed. We provide several numerical examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing