Range Sidelobe Suppression Using Complementary Sets in Distributed Multistatic Radar Networks

Jiahua Zhu; Xuezhi Wang; Yongping Song; Xiaotao Huang; Bill Moran

doi:10.3390/s18010035

Range Sidelobe Suppression Using Complementary Sets in Distributed Multistatic Radar Networks

Sensors (Basel). 2017 Dec 25;18(1):35. doi: 10.3390/s18010035.

Authors

Jiahua Zhu^{1

2

3

4}, Xuezhi Wang^{5

6}, Yongping Song^{7

8}, Xiaotao Huang^{9

10}, Bill Moran^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. zhujiahua1019@hotmail.com.
² School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia. zhujiahua1019@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia. zhujiahua1019@hotmail.com.
⁴ Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Changsha 410073, China. zhujiahua1019@hotmail.com.
⁵ School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia. xuezhi.wang@rmit.edu.au.
⁶ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia. xuezhi.wang@rmit.edu.au.
⁷ College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. sypopqjkl@163.com.
⁸ Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Changsha 410073, China. sypopqjkl@163.com.
⁹ College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China. xthuang@nudt.edu.cn.
¹⁰ Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Changsha 410073, China. xthuang@nudt.edu.cn.
¹¹ School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia. wmoran@unimelb.edu.au.
¹² Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia. wmoran@unimelb.edu.au.

Abstract

We propose an alternative waveform scheme built on mutually-orthogonal complementary sets for a distributed multistatic radar. Our analysis and simulation show a reduced frequency band requirement for signal separation between antennas with centralized signal processing using the same carrier frequency. While the scheme can tolerate fluctuations of carrier frequencies and phases, range sidelobes arise when carrier frequencies between antennas are significantly different.

Keywords: complementary sets; distributed multistatic radar; range sidelobe suppression.

Publication types

Letter