Dual-Function Radar-Communications: Information Embedding Using Sidelobe Control and Waveform Diversity

By Aboulnasr Hassanien, Moeness G. Amin, Yimin D. Zhang, Fauzia Ahmad. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2016

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Signal Processing

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Secure Radar-Communication Systems With Malicious Targets: Integrating Radar, Communications and Jamming Functionalities (2019, background): “As a step further, dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system that is capable of realizing not only the spectral coexistence, but also the shared use of the hardware platform, has been regarded as a promising research direction [12]–[15].”
MU-MIMO Communications With MIMO Radar: From Co-Existence to Joint Transmission (2017, methodology): “Due to the limited space, and following the approaches of [22], [23], we only focus our attention on the joint transmission of the RadCom system in this paper, and set aside the receiver techniques for our future work.”
Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead (2019, unknown): “One can simply modulate the sidelobe level using amplitude shift keying (ASK), where different powers represent different communication symbols [86].”
Towards Multi-Functional 6G Wireless Networks: Integrating Sensing, Communication and Security (2021, background): “One can simply modulate its sidelobe using amplitude shift keying (ASK) or phase shift keying (PSK), where the communication symbols are represented by the different levels of power, or the different phases of the received signals [10].”
Survey of RF Communications and Sensing Convergence Research (2017, methodology): “For example, in Reference [111], the authors optimize multiple spatial waveforms to modulate radar sidelobe levels while maintaining a ﬁxed main lobe to keep radar performance constant.”
Joint Radar-Communication Strategies for Autonomous Vehicles: Combining Two Key Automotive Technologies (2019, background): “g u y w t ( ) ( ) j c c T j j c = + The communication data bits can be conveyed by modulating the amplitude [7] or phase [8] of .”
A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence (2020, unknown): “For MIMO radar with transmit beam-forming, the information-bearing symbols may also be embedded into the radar beam pattern, e.g., by amplitude modulation of the radar side-lobe levels [285].”
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond (2021, methodology): “wi, i = 0, 1, may be designed by solving the following optimization problem [140]”
Signaling strategies for dual-function radar communications: an overview (2016, methodology): “This weight vector design criterion is formulated as the following optimization problem [22]”
Radar and Communication Coexistence: An Overview: A Review of Recent Methods (2019, background): “…only processes the preamble; 3) GLRT-2, SW-1: Like GLRT-1, but γ is a nuisance parameter, modeled as complex Gaussian; 4) GLRT-3: The payload data are not available to the radar receiver; 5) GLRT-4 SW-1: Like GLRT-3, but with γ a nuisance parameter; 6) Preamble-det: The preamble detector of [29].”
Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization for Joint Radar-Communication Beamforming (2021, background): “Pioneered by [9], the authors proposed to embed the communication data by varying the sidelobes of the spatial beampattern of the MIMO radar, where the mainlobe is exploited solely for target detection.”
Waveform Design and Performance Analysis for Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communication (2021, methodology): “Significant research efforts have been devoted to the waveform design and performance analysis of DFRC systems, which can be loosely classified as radar-centric [29]–[31] or communicationcentric [32], [33].”
Toward Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Optimal Waveform Design (2017, methodology): “In [27], a transmit beampattern for MIMO radar is designed to embed the information bits in sidelobe levels.”
Radar-Assisted Predictive Beamforming for Vehicular Links: Communication Served by Sensing (2020, unknown): “In [12], the authors proposed to detect target using the mainlobe of the MIMO radar, while transmitting useful information to the communication receivers using the sidelobes.”
Dual-Function Radar Communication Systems: A solution to the spectrum congestion problem (2019, methodology): “The figure shows that the ASK method using two SSLs and two orthogonal waveforms outperforms the AM method with four SLLs and a single waveform.”
Toward Millimeter-Wave Joint Radar Communications: A signal processing perspective (2019, background): “For instance, in [38], the radar array beampattern sidelobes are modulated by communications messages along the user directions.”
Joint Transmit Beamforming for Multiuser MIMO Communications and MIMO Radar (2019, background): “For example, [34], [35] proposed to embed communication bits by controlling the amplitude and phase of radar spatial side-lobes.”