Coordinated search and track by multiple phased array radars

This paper addresses the search and track coordination problems of multiple shipboard radars. The proposed approach first exploits the physical characteristics of a single phased array radar to improve its effective capacity. Its effective capacity is abstracted by a closed-form equation called a schedulability envelope. Using the schedulability envelope for each radar, we deal with search and track coordination as a relative-load-balancing problem in a multiresource environment. The simulation results show that the proposed approach significantly improves the overall capacity of a multiship multiradar system.