Radar mutual information and communication channel capacity of integrated radar-communication system using MIMO

Abstract

Integrated radar-communication system based on multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) shares the hardware resource and spectrum to fulfill radar and communication functions, simultaneously. The baseband signal models of the MIMO radar and the integrated radar-communication system are set up. Then, the radar mutual information and the communication channel capacity are derived accordingly. Radar mutual information is used to evaluate the radar performance; communication channel capacity is one of the methods used to measure the communication capability. The influences of signal-to-noise ratio and the number of antennas, on the mutual information and channel capacity are presented through simulations.

Keywords

• Radar-based communication
• MIMO
• Mutual information
• Channel capacity