机载MIMO雷达广义最大似然检测器

该文针对机载MIMO雷达在未知统计特性的杂波中目标检测问题,首先给出广义最大似然(GLRT)检测器(MIMO-GLRT),利用MIMO雷达的空间分集特性提高检测性能,并推导出检测概率和虚警概率表达式。然后,基于MIMO雷达杂波协方差矩阵的块对角特性,给出一种简化MIMO-GLRT检测器,大大减小算法的复杂度,同时降低对参考单元数目的要求,并在只有两个接收雷达单元的情形下,推导出简化GLRT检测性能的表达式。结果表明,上述两种检测器相对于杂波协方差矩阵都具有恒虚警特性,能够在未知杂波背景下有效地检测目标。     

零训练样本的集中式MIMO雷达斜对称检测器

传统集中式多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达自适应检测器虽然不需要训练样本即可实现目标检测,但在波形采样数较少时检测性能下降明显。该文利用集中式MIMO雷达噪声协方差矩阵的斜对称结构,基于广义似然比(Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test, GLRT)准则和Wald准则,提出了相应的斜对称检测器,并给出了统计分布特性及检测概率和虚警概率的解析表达式。仿真结果表明所提检测器在波形采样数较少时仍可获得较好的检测性能,同时证明了理论分析的正确性。     

部分均匀杂波环境中极化自适应Rao检测器

研究了机载极化雷达在部分均匀杂波背景下对于低慢小目标的自适应检测问题。基于Rao准则设计得到了极化自适应Rao检测器,分析了极化自适应Rao检测器的性能,推导得到了虚警概率和检测概率的解析表达式,证明了极化自适应Rao检测器对于杂波协方差矩阵和杂波功率比因子具有恒虚警率特性。理论分析和数值仿真表明,与基于广义似然比检验准则得到的自适应子空间检测器和自适应匹配检测器相比,极化自适应Rao检测器具有更好的检测性能和更低的计算复杂度。      

严重拖尾复合高斯杂波中目标的自适应极化检测

该文研究极化高分辨雷达在动态变化的杂波场景中自适应检测小目标的问题.将统计特性严重拖尾的杂波建模为纹理分量为逆伽马分布的复合高斯过程,借助于广义似然比检验和辅助数据得到了自适应极化检测器,并推导了该检测器的虚警概率表达式,证明了该检测器对协方差矩阵结构具有恒虚警特性.最后,利用仿真杂波数据验证了检测器检测性能的有效性.     

集中式O FDM-MIMO雷达自适应检测算法

针对频率分集条件下，集中式OFDM-MIMO雷达在未知杂波环境中的目标检测问题，首先分析了OFDM-MIMO雷达回波数据模型，由于OFDM-MIMO雷达的频率分集特性，不同频率通道回波数据相互独立，在此基础上，分别基于一步和两步广义最大似然比准则，给出了集中式OFDM-MIMO雷达GLRT和OFDM-MIMO雷达AMF两种检测器，并分析了这两种检测器的恒虚警特性。两种检测器有效利用集中式OFDM-MIMO雷达频率分集特性，提升目标检测性能，同时降低了矩阵求逆维数，以及参考单元数目的要求，并且具有恒虚警性能。计算机仿真验证了算法的有效性。     

非高斯海杂波背景最优相干检测性能分析

非高斯海杂波背景下雷达目标检测一直是研究的重点。海杂波分布参数形式的多样化使得检测器对杂波平均功率的恒虚警特性无法保证,因此文中对描述非高斯海杂波的K分布、广义Pareto分布和逆高斯纹理复合高斯分布的参数形式进行了规范化,得到了规范化后的三种杂波分布对应的最优相干检测器。理论分析和实验验证了三个自适应检测器分别对杂波平均功率、目标多普勒频率和散斑协方差矩阵具有恒虚警特性。仿真实验表明:散斑协方差矩阵估计方法和辅助数据的数量均影响着自适应检测器的检测概率和虚警概率。     

分布式目标的子空间双门限GLRT CFAR检测

 研究了分布式目标在球不变随机变量杂波中的检测问题,提出了一种具有恒虚警特性的双门限广义似然比检测器。分布式目标建模为子空间信号,在距离维和多普勒频率维同时扩展.第一门限的作用是筛选信杂比高的待检测距离单元.将选出的距离单元进行能量积累并与第二门限进行比较做出判决.假设杂波协方差矩阵已知,构造了双门限检测器,并通过推导检测器虚警概率说明其具有恒虚警特性.将基于辅助通道数据的杂波协方差矩阵的估计值替换假设已知的杂波协方差矩阵,得到一个自适应检测器.通过Monte Carlo仿真进行性能分析,说明检测器的有效性和鲁棒性.     

相干积累检测器中协方差矩阵估计的新算法

针对传统协方差矩阵估计方法忽略了海杂波的统计一致性随雷达距离分辨率的变化而变化以及可积累脉冲受参考样本数量的限制这两个问题,提出了一种基于对角加载的协方差矩阵估计算法,其加载系数随着杂波向量的一致性变化而自适应地变化.改进的估计矩阵相对误差小,条件数好,加载系数为近似最优.实测海杂波数据实验表明,使用改进的估计算法使检测器的性能有明显改善.     

一种基于有序统计的MIMO雷达CFAR检测器

针对多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达的体制特点,提出了一种基于有序统计的MIMO雷达CFAR检测器(LCIOSOS-CFAR),给出了虚警概率与检测概率的表达式;然后在各种杂波背景下对检测器性能进行了仿真分析,并与经典的CA-CFAR检测器进行比较.仿真结果表明,LCIOSOS-CFAR检测器在均匀杂波背景下较CA-CFAR有较小损失,在多目标干扰环境下较CA-CFAR性能改善明显,在杂波边缘背景下虚警峰值小于CA-CFAR,实际应用中具有较强的鲁棒性.文中还分析了序值选取对LCIOSOS-CFAR检测性能的影响.     

不需要训练数据的分布式MIMO雷达距离扩展目标检测器

在非均匀杂波环境中,研究了高分辨率分布式多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达的距离扩展目标检测问题。由于分布式MIMO雷达观测到的杂波是非均匀的,无法获得足够的独立同分布的均匀训练数据来估计检测单元的杂波协方差矩阵。采用复逆Wishart分布对杂波协方差矩阵建模,基于该杂波模型设计了一种不需要训练数据的分布式MIMO雷达距离扩展目标广义似然比检测器。数值仿真结果表明:在非均匀杂波环境中,所设计的检测器的性能比用训练数据的协方差矩阵类检测器有明显的改进。     

Simple and Accurate Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Multi-Input Multi-Output Systems

In this paper we design an irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, using a simple extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart method. The MIMO systems considered are the optimal maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) detector and the suboptimal minimum mean square error soft-interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC) detector. The MIMO detector and the LDPC decoder exchange soft information and form a turbo iterative receiver. The EXIT charts are used to obtain the edge degree distribution of the irregular LDPC code which is optimized for the MIMO detector. It is shown that the performance of the designed LDPC code is better than that of conventional LDPC code which was optimized for either the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel or the MIMO channel without an explicit consideration of the given detector structure.     

A PDF estimation-based iterative MIMO signal detection with unknown interference

The equivalent diversity order of iterative minimum mean squared error (MMSE) multiuser detectors for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channels is decreased if they aim at suppressing unknown cochannel interference (UCCI) while detecting multiple users' signals. In this letter, we propose a new MIMO signal detection scheme with the aim to preserve the detector's diversity order by estimating the probability density function of the UCCI plus background noise. It is shown that the proposed detector significantly outperforms the conventional detector based on UCCI's covariance matrix estimation.     

MIMO雷达稳健的发射波束形成算法

针对发射导向矢量存在未知误差的问题,该文提出了一种MIMO雷达稳健的发射波束形成算法(Robust Transmitting Beamforming, RTB)。该算法在稳健的接收波束形成算法的基础上,以最大化最差情况输出信干噪比为优化准则,对发射导向矢量误差做稳健的发射波束形成。RTB算法属于对角加载方法。仿真结果表明,相比于已有算法,RTB算法的稳健性更好、计算复杂度更低、收敛速度更快。     

具有未知参数的多输入多输出雷达弱目标检测

针对弱目标检测算法的特点,提出了一种新的多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达检测器。在经典线性模型的基础上,通过最大似然法对未知统计特性的噪声量进行了估计。利用所得到的估计量,分别推导了在信道完全不相关和信道任意相关条件下虚警概率和检测概率的闭合表达式,对具有未知参数的MIMO雷达在任意信道环境下的检测算法进行了分析和比较,有效地解决了具有未知统计特性的噪声的MI-MO雷达目标检测问题。仿真结果证实了该方法的有效性。     

非完备杂波先验知识场景下MIMO-STAP稳健波形设计

本文考虑了色高斯干扰条件下MIMO STAP稳健波形优化问题以提高非完备杂波先验知识条件下多输入多输出（MIMO）雷达体制下空时自适应处理（STAP）最坏情况下探测性能。由于高斯干扰（包括杂波、干扰以及热噪声）场景下最大化系统输出信干噪比（SINR）等价于最大化MIMO STAP检测性能,因而在本文所建立杂波协方差估计误差的模型基础上,总功率发射以及参数不确定凸集约束下,经推导可得稳健波形优化问题。为求解得到的复杂非线性问题,本文提出了一种迭代算法以优化发射波形相关阵（WCM）从而最大化凸不确定集上最差情况下的输出SINR进而改善最差情况下MIMO STAP的检测性能。通过利用对角加载（DL）方法,所提算法中的每个迭代步骤皆可表示为能获得高效求解的半定规划（SDP）问题。与非稳健方法及非相关波形相比,数值实验验证了本文所提方法的有效性。      

一种基于多级维纳滤波的多通道SAR动目标检测算法

该文针对机载多通道SAR-GMTI系统及实测数据,提出一种新的地面慢动目标检测算法。新算法利用多级维纳滤波器实现多通道SAR系统杂波抑制,同时结合对角加载技术和非均匀检测器,进一步改善SAR系统在非均匀环境下的动目标检测性能。实测数据实验结果表明:与常规的自适应检测方法相比,新算法能够明显提高系统对杂波的抑制能力及非均匀环境下系统的动目标检测性能。     

The Error Probability of the Fixed-Complexity Sphere Decoder

The fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) has been previously proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection in order to overcome the two main drawbacks of the sphere decoder (SD), namely its variable complexity and its sequential structure. Although the FSD has shown remarkable quasi-maximum-likelihood (ML) performance and has resulted in a highly optimized real-time implementation, no analytical study of its performance existed for an arbitrary MIMO system. Herein, the error probability of the FSD is analyzed, proving that it achieves the same diversity as the maximum-likelihood detector (MLD) independent of the constellation used. In addition, it can also asymptotically yield ML performance in the high-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. Those two results, together with its fixed complexity, make the FSD a very promising algorithm for uncoded MIMO detection.     

Implementation of a High Throughput Soft MIMO Detector on GPU

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) significantly increases the throughput of a communication system by employing multiple antennas at the transmitter and the receiver. To extract maximum performance from a MIMO system, a computationally intensive search based detector is needed. To meet the challenge of MIMO detection, typical suboptimal MIMO detectors are ASIC or FPGA designs. We aim to show that a MIMO detector on Graphic processor unit (GPU), a low-cost parallel programmable co-processor, can achieve high throughput and can serve as an alternative to ASIC/FPGA designs. However, careful architecture aware software design is needed to leverage the performance offered by GPU. We propose a novel soft MIMO detection algorithm, multi-pass trellis traversal (MTT), and show that we can achieve ASIC/FPGA-like performance and handle different configurations in software on GPU. The proposed design can be used to accelerate wireless physical layer simulations and to offload MIMO detection processing in wireless testbed platforms.     

Waveform optimization for MIMO-STAP to improve the detection performance

In this letter, we address the problem of waveform optimization for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) space-time adaptive processing (STAP) in the presence of colored Gaussian disturbance. A novel diagonal loading (DL) based method is proposed to optimize the waveform covariance matrix (WCM) for maximizing the output signal-interference-noise ratio (SINR) of MIMO-STAP such that the detection performance can be maximized. The resultant nonlinear optimization problem is reformulated as a semidefinite programming (SDP) one, which can be solved very efficiently. Simulation results show that the output SINR of MIMO-STAP can be improved considerably by the proposed method, as compared to that of uncorrelated waveforms.