Radar sensor networks: algorithms for waveform design and diversity with application to ATR with delay-Doppler uncertainty

Authors:
Qilian Liang
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Venue:
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Automatic target recognition (ATR) in target search phase is very challenging because the target range and mobility are not yet perfectly known, which results in delay-Doppler uncertainty. In this paper, we firstly perform some theoretical studies on radar sensor network (RSN) design based on linear frequency modulation (LFM) waveform: (1) the conditions for waveform coexistence, (2) interferences among waveforms in RSN, (3) waveform diversity in RSN. Then we apply RSN to ATR with delay-Doppler uncertainty and propose maximum-likeihood (ML) ATR algorithms for fluctuating targets and nonfluctuating targets. Simulation esults show that our RSN vastly reduces the ATR error compared to a single radar system in ATR with delay-Doppler uncertainty. The proposed waveform design and diversity algorithms can also be applied to active RFID sensor networks and underwater acoustic sensor networks.