CIAPC algorithm for random frequency-hopping radar

Abstract

In random frequency-hopping pulse–Doppler radar, the transmitted frequencies are randomly distributed in the given frequency bandwidth. As a result, this kind of radar has the advantage of anti-jamming. However, because of the sidelobe level fluctuating randomly, the sidelobe of a large scatterer can mask the presence of nearby smaller scatterers. The adaptive pulse compression (APC) algorithm has been shown capable of effectively suppressing the range sidelobes, but the performance gain is diminished whenever the return signals have a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Furthermore, moving targets with high speed bring about the range migration problem. To solve these problems, the coherent integration APC (CIAPC) algorithm is proposed. The simulation results indicate that in a low SNR scenario, the CIAPC algorithm can suppress the range sidelobes of large scatterers and can improve detection performance.

Keywords

• jamming
• spread spectrum radar
• radar signal processing
• pulse compression
• radar detection
• doppler radar
• transmitted frequencies
• given frequency bandwidth
• anti-jamming
• sidelobe level fluctuating
• nearby smaller scatterers
• adaptive pulse compression algorithm
• range sidelobes
• low signal-to-noise ratio
• range migration problem
• coherent integration apc algorithm
• ciapc algorithm
• random frequency-hopping radar
• random frequency-hopping pulse–doppler radar