access icon free Combined optimisation of waveform and quantisation thresholds for multistatic radar systems

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Received 20/07/2017, Accepted 07/01/2018, Revised 13/12/2017, Published 10/01/2018

The problem of designing waveform and quantisation thresholds is studied in a multistatic radar setting, where distributed receivers are connected to a fusion centre via capacity constraints. Different from the previous cloud radio-multistatic radar system which utilises an additive quantisation Gaussian noise model, a real quantisation system is designed. The authors first optimise the waveform without quantisation. Then they compress the received signal at receivers into a scalar without any performance degradation. Furthermore, the scalar quantiser is adopted and quantisation thresholds are designed. Numerical simulations are performed and the effectiveness of combined waveform and thresholds optimisation strategy is demonstrated.

Inspec keywords: radar signal processing; numerical analysis; data compression; quantisation (signal); Gaussian noise; optimisation

Other keywords: cloud radio-multistatic radar system; fusion centre; received signal compression; scalar quantiser; capacity constraints; additive quantisation Gaussian noise model; combined waveform-quantisation threshold optimisation strategy; real quantisation system; distributed receivers; numerical simulations

Subjects: Optimisation techniques; Other numerical methods; Signal processing and detection; Radar equipment, systems and applications

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