Abstract：The most important characteristic of the complex electromagnetic environment is the limitation of the radio frequency resource. As a result, the smart use of the limiting spectral resource is necessary to the waveform design for the cognitive radar. This paper designs the transmit waveform under the Peak to Average power Ratio (PAR), to maximize the Signal to Noise power Ratio (SNR) at the receiver, and simultaneously, minimize the power of the waveform in the interference frequency bands. The waveform design problem is a quadratically constrained multi-objective optimization problem. Exploiting the Pareto optimization method, the one objective function is obtained by weighted sum of the two ones, and the resultant problem reduces into a Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Program (QCQP). In order to solve it, the SemiDefinite Program (SDP) relaxation and randomization are used to achieve the optimal waveform, whose performance is related to the Pareto weights and the PAR constraint. The computer simulation results show that, there is a restrictive relationship between the SNR and interference suppression ability for the waveform design, and the performance can be improved by increasing the dynamic range of the transmitter.
邹鲲,骆艳卜,李伟,李海林. 频谱拥挤环境中峰均功率比约束的认知雷达发射波形设计[J]. 电子与信息学报, 2018, 40(7): 1774-1778.
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