Experimental Assessment of Tandem-Hopped Radar and Communications (THoRaCs)

A dual-function radar/communication emission scheme was recently developed in which undistorted information-bearing OFDM subcarriers are embedded into the constant amplitude and spectrally well-contained structure of FM noise radar waveforms via a two-stage optimization process. This power-efficient...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ravenscroft, Brandon, McCormick, Patrick M., Blunt, Shannon, Perrins, Erik S., Sahin, Cenk, Metcalf, Justin G.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
dual-function radar/communications
FM noise radar
spectrum sharing
waveform diversity
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A dual-function radar/communication emission scheme was recently developed in which undistorted information-bearing OFDM subcarriers are embedded into the constant amplitude and spectrally well-contained structure of FM noise radar waveforms via a two-stage optimization process. This power-efficient formulation is amenable to high-power amplification on transmit and subsequent demodulation of the embedded communication symbols through standard OFDM receive processing. Here the individual attributes of the emission are experimentally evaluated through free-space transmission followed by capture of the reflected radar echoes along with separate capture and demodulation by a communication receiver.
ISSN:2640-7736
DOI:10.1109/RADAR41533.2019.171280