Title
Dual-functional Cellular and Radar Transmission: Beyond Coexistence
Abstract
We propose waveform design for a dual-functional multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) system, which carries out both radar target detection and multi-user communications using a single hardware platform. By enforcing both a constant modulus (CM) constraint and a similarity constraint with respect to referenced radar signals, we aim to minimize the downlink multiuser interference. Unlike conventional approaches which obtain suboptimal solutions to the generally NP-hard CM optimization problems involved, we propose a branch-and-bound method to efficiently find the global minimizer of the problem. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the state-of-art by achieving a favorable trade-off between radar and communication performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SPAWC.2018.8445869
2018 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
dual-functional multiinput-multioutput system,radar target detection,multiuser communications,single hardware platform,constant modulus constraint,similarity constraint,referenced radar signals,NP-hard CM optimization problems,communication performance,waveform design,dual-functional cellular transmission,radar transmission,MIMO system,downlink multiuser interference minimization,branch-and-bound method,global minimizer
Radar,Signal processing,Wireless,Computer science,Waveform,Algorithm,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Interference (wave propagation),Optimization problem,Telecommunications link
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-3513-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fan Liu125515.73
Longfei Zhou2562.70
Christos Masouros3126394.92
Ang Lit400.34
Luo Wu544.54
Athina P. Petropulu61995135.28