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OFDM Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging with Sufficient Cyclic Prefix
The existing linear frequency modulated (LFM) (or step frequency) and random
noise synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems may correspond to the frequency
hopping (FH) and direct sequence (DS) spread spectrum systems in the past
second and third generation wireless communications. Similar to the current and
future wireless communications generations, in this paper, we propose OFDM SAR
imaging, where a sufficient cyclic prefix (CP) is added to each OFDM pulse. The
sufficient CP insertion converts an inter-symbol interference (ISI) channel
from multipaths into multiple ISI-free subchannels as the key in a wireless
communications system, and analogously, it provides an inter-range-cell
interference (IRCI) free (high range resolution) SAR image in a SAR system. The
sufficient CP insertion along with our newly proposed SAR imaging algorithm
particularly for the OFDM signals also differentiates this paper from all the
existing studies in the literature on OFDM radar signal processing. Simulation
results are presented to illustrate the high range resolution performance of
our proposed CP based OFDM SAR imaging algorithm.Comment: This version has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 201
Power minimization based robust OFDM radar waveform design for radar and communication systems in coexistence.
This paper considers the problem of power minimization based robust orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) radar waveform design, in which the radar coexists with a communication system in the same frequency band. Recognizing that the precise characteristics of target spectra are impossible to capture in practice, it is assumed that the target spectra lie in uncertainty sets bounded by known upper and lower bounds. Based on this uncertainty model, three different power minimization based robust radar waveform design criteria are proposed to minimize the worst-case radar transmitted power by optimizing the OFDM radar waveform, which are constrained by a specified mutual information (MI) requirement for target characterization and a minimum capacity threshold for communication system. These criteria differ in the way the communication signals scattered off the target are considered: (i) as useful energy, (ii) as interference or (iii) ignored altogether at the radar receiver. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the radar transmitted power can be efficiently reduced by exploiting the communication signals scattered off the target at the radar receiver. It is also shown that the robust waveforms bound the worst-case power-saving performance of radar system for any target spectra in the uncertainty sets
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