TY - GEN
T1 - MIMO radars or is it smart antennas?
AU - Sarkar, Tapan K.
AU - Palma, Magdalena Salazar
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Radars were originally designed as detectors of targets. The goal was to transmit a signal with the maximum available power and then observe whether the received signal contained a portion of the transmitted signal. A matched filter was then designed using the transmitted waveform to detect the received signal and based on some statistical hypothesis testing a decision was made on whether a target is present or absent. However, when multiple targets are to be examined or one wants to search for a low observable near a large target, the conventional detection based radar processing is not adequate. A need for finding small targets in the presence of clutter and jammer evolved into an estimation theory problem rather than detection. It is illustrated that use of a phased array in a SIMO mode can perform quite well as one does not have to worry about the inhomogenity of the clutter associated with multiple transmissions in a MIMO system as the processing becomes quite complicated. Also, the compensation of mutual coupling becomes difficult in a practical deployment on a moving platform. It is important to note that one can still exploit the advantages of super-resolution processing using estimation theory keeping the advantages of a single high power transmitting antenna in a phased array deployment. This paper illustrates such a methodology which has been in the published literature for at least a decade and compares it with the recent MIMO developments. Examples are presented related to a single snapshot based least squares methodology that can cancel interferer in the main beam using a phased array radar but performing a deterministic processing using the same number of degrees of freedom as a multisnapshot case for coherent processing.
AB - Radars were originally designed as detectors of targets. The goal was to transmit a signal with the maximum available power and then observe whether the received signal contained a portion of the transmitted signal. A matched filter was then designed using the transmitted waveform to detect the received signal and based on some statistical hypothesis testing a decision was made on whether a target is present or absent. However, when multiple targets are to be examined or one wants to search for a low observable near a large target, the conventional detection based radar processing is not adequate. A need for finding small targets in the presence of clutter and jammer evolved into an estimation theory problem rather than detection. It is illustrated that use of a phased array in a SIMO mode can perform quite well as one does not have to worry about the inhomogenity of the clutter associated with multiple transmissions in a MIMO system as the processing becomes quite complicated. Also, the compensation of mutual coupling becomes difficult in a practical deployment on a moving platform. It is important to note that one can still exploit the advantages of super-resolution processing using estimation theory keeping the advantages of a single high power transmitting antenna in a phased array deployment. This paper illustrates such a methodology which has been in the published literature for at least a decade and compares it with the recent MIMO developments. Examples are presented related to a single snapshot based least squares methodology that can cancel interferer in the main beam using a phased array radar but performing a deterministic processing using the same number of degrees of freedom as a multisnapshot case for coherent processing.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICWITS.2010.5611988
DO - 10.1109/ICWITS.2010.5611988
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649579983
SN - 9781424470914
T3 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2010
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2010
Y2 - 28 August 2010 through 3 September 2010
ER -