Unimodular Complete Complementary Sequence With Optimal Trade-Off Between Auto- and Cross-Ambiguity Functions for MIMO Radars

It is difficult to design unimodular sequences with both good auto-ambiguity functions (AF) and cross-ambiguity functions (CAF), due to its nonconvex and higher cardinality property. To address this problem, we propose a Pareto optimization framework to reach an optimal tradeoff between AF and CAF. Besides, we also propose a novel convolution-based multi-objective optimization algorithm to optimize the conventional metrics including peak sidelobe level (PSL) and integrated sidelobe level (ISL). In this way, the generated sequences are Doppler resilient with the desired shape of aperiodic or periodic AFs. Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, simulation experimental results indicate the PSL metric of AF and CAF can be both suppressed to −72 dB under the same system parameters, obtaining a minimum of 7 dB gain.