Continuous Distributed Processing of Software Defined Radar

Software-defined radar has been an active research field for more than ten years. However, the low performance and low scalability of the traditional processing techniques of SDR make it hard to deal with complex radar tasks. The stream processing engine is a software that supports low latency and high scalability distributed data processing. It is widely used in log, image, and video processing scenarios but rarely used in radar applications. This paper reviews processing software-defined radar data by using the stream processing engine, and we illustrate the differences between processing log data and radar data. Furthermore, we discuss some optimizations for stream processing engines to get better performance in the radar data processing.