Affiliation:
1. Hebei Key Laboratory of Marine Perception Network and Data Processing, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Abstract
Optimizing the energy spectrum density (ESD) of a transmitted waveform can improve radar performance. The design of a time–domain constant–modulus signal corresponding to the transmitted waveform ESD is practically important because constant–modulus signals can maximize transmission power and meet the hardware requirements of radar transmitters. Here, we present a time–domain signal design under dual constraints of energy and constant modulus. The mutual information (MI)–based waveform design method is used to design transmitted waveform ESD under the energy constraint. Then, the bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) is proposed to design the time–domain constant–modulus signal. We use minimum mean square error (MMSE) in the frequency domain as the cost function. The BFOA monotonously decreases the MMSE with increasing iterations, which makes the ESD of the time–domain constant–modulus signal close to the MI–based optimal waveform ESD. The simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm has advantages, including insensitivity to initial phases, rapid convergence, smaller MI loss, and MMSE compared with the iterative reconstruction algorithm.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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