Subset Selection Strategies Based on Target Positioning Characteristics for Anti-Jamming Technology

Abstract

For the discrimination of false targets, the discrimination probability can be improved by increasing the number of radar stations. However, that may result in a serious waste of equipment resources when too many radars are involved. An asymptotic subset selection strategy based on target positioning characteristics is proposed to address the above issues. Several effective strategies are considered to select some transmitters and receivers to form a radar subset, such as the rapid shrinkage method, global shrinkage method, and predetermined size method, which can guarantee the preset discrimination performance of limited equipment resources and reduce the waste of resources. All of the selected stations have good spatial distribution or strong discrimination capacity in multistatic radar system. Compared with the exhaustive search, the proposed subset selection strategy affords a significant reduction in terms of time complexity. The simulation results show that the radar subset can maintain approximate discrimination performance with the original multistatic radar systems. At the same time, the proposed method optimizes the number of radar stations and reduces data processing time and required communication links, thus effectively saving operating costs.