MIMO RADAR CAPABILITY ON POWERFUL JAMMERS SUPPRESSION

The problem of jammers suppression in colocated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is considered. We resort to reduced dimension (RD) beamspace designs with robustness/adaptiveness to achieve the goal of efficient jammers suppression. Specifically, our RD beamspace techniques aim at designing optimal beamspace matrices based on reasonable tradeoffs between the desired in-sector source distortion and the powerful jammer (possibly in-sector) attenuation when conducting the jammers suppression. These designs are cast as convex optimization problems which are derived using second-order cone programming. Meanwhile, we study the MUSIC-based direction-of-arrival estimation performance of the proposed beamspace designs by comparing to the conventional algorithms. Moreover, we demonstrate that the capability of efficient powerful in-sector jammers suppression using these designs is unique in MIMO radar.