TARGET TRACKING AND RECEIVER PLACEMENT IN MIMO DVB-T BASED PCL

Abstract

Recently many studies have been done on different issues of using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides of a radar system in a MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) configuration. In addition, for the electronic warfare‟s purposes, the utilization of available signals of the environment to detect the targets has gained considerable attention in recent years. Such passive radars use the transmitter of other purposes (e.g. the GSM or television stations) as their noncooperative transmitter. Moreover, the idea of using multiple of such illuminators to get the advantages of MIMO technology, besides the advantages of passive illumination, is new and attractive. An excellent candidate of such configuration is a DVB-T SFN (single frequency network). However, various obstacles and considerations appear when working with a MIMO DVB-T based passive radar system. In this paper, we consider two such problems: tracking multiple targets and choosing appropriate positions for the receive antennas in the surveillance region. First, based on the previously developed schemes to associate the receive data to the transmitters and targets, we propose a tracking algorithm to extract the true targets from the candidate targets. Then, we develop a procedure to place the receivers of such MIMO passive systems in such positions that result in better performance of the aforementioned association algorithm.