MIMO radar: an idea whose time has come
Fishler, E.
Haimovich, A.
Blum, R.
Chizhik, D.
Cimini, L.
Valenzuela, R.
New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA;
This paper appears in: Radar Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE
Publication Date: 26-29 April 2004
On page(s): 71- 78
ISSN: 1097-5659
ISBN: 0-7803-8234-X
INSPEC Accession Number: 7972416
Current Version Published: 2004-07-26
Abstract
It has recently been shown that multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems have the potential to improve dramatically the performance of communication systems over single antenna systems. Unlike beamforming, which presumes a high correlation between signals either transmitted or received by an array, the MIMO concept exploits the independence between signals at the array elements. In conventional radar, target scintillations are regarded as a nuisance parameter that degrades radar performance. The novelty of MIMO radar is that it takes the opposite view; namely, it capitalizes on target scintillations to improve the radar's performance. We introduce the MIMO concept for radar. The MIMO radar system under consideration consists of a transmit array with widely-spaced elements such that each views a different aspect of the target. The array at the receiver is a conventional array used for direction finding (DF). The system performance analysis is carried out in terms of the Cramer-Rao bound of the mean-square error in estimating the target direction. It is shown that MIMO radar leads to significant performance improvement in DF accuracy.
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