Detection Performance for Distributed Radar Sensor Network

Abstract

The need for mobility and the rapid deployment motivates the research of distributed radar sensor network withNTtransmitters,NRreceivers and a fusion center, where the fusion center and the receivers are communicated via wireless signaling. With the assumption of orthogonal waveforms for sensing and circular complex Gaussian noise channel model for communication, the formulae of detection probability and the false alarm probability are derived given the sensing power and communication power. Numerical results show that with the increase of the total power, the ratio between the best sensing power and the best communication power will increase. Moreover, the shape of the region in which the target detection probability is larger than a predetermined value is not regular, which should be taken care in case of network planning.