i Abstract This thesis investigates the problem of target parameter estimation and performance analysis of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar in the presence of non-Gaussian clutter. During the past decades, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar has become a research subject of growing interest, due to its superior performance in many aspects over the traditional phased-array rad...

The thesis at hand investigates the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using a Multiple-InputMultiple-Output (MIMO) radar system. The application of MIMO radars in automobiles is studied. A MIMO radar consists of several transmitting (Tx) and receiving (Rx) antennas. We focus on a time division multiplexed (TDM) MIMO radar with colocated Tx and Rx antennas. The motivation is the use of a rad...

Spectrum sharing between radars and cellular systems is an emerging area of research. In this paper, we model channel between a seaborne MIMO radar and MIMO cellular system. We model a 2D channel to capture the azimuth aspect of the spectrum sharing scenario. Our channel modeling methodology allows MIMO radar to place accurate nulls in the azimuth location of base stations (BS), thus, protectin...

Space-time coding (STC) has been shown to play a key role in the design of MIMO radars with closely spaced antennas. Multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) radar is emerging technology for target detection, parameter identification, and target classification due to diversity of waveform and perspective. First, it turns out that a joint waveform optimization problem can be decoupled into a set of...

Recently, there has been great interest in the development of advanced radar systems with phased arrays [1], [2]. In traditional multichannel radar array systems, the number of receivers should be equal to the number of receiving antennas, so the hardware expense and power consumption are very high [3]. A radar array system based on antenna switching is a promising substitute due to its lower c...

In the traditional transmitting beamforming radar system, the transmitting antennas send coherent waveforms which form a highly focused beam. In the multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) radar system, the transmitter sends noncoherent (possibly orthogonal) broad (possibly omnidirectional) waveforms. These waveforms can be extracted at the receiver by a matched filterbank. The extracted signals c...

Bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar can improve the system performance for obtaining the waveform diversity and larger degrees of freedom (DoF), and effectively counteract the stealthy target for its transmit antennas and receive antennas separated placement. Similarly with the conventional bistatic radar, the geometry configurations of bistatic MIMO radar also play an importan...

1. INTRODUCTION * Sponsored by multi-government agencies and especially by the US Navy, a phased-array weather radar has been constructed at NSSL Norman Oklahoma. This establishes the first National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT) equipped with the solid-state phased-array antenna (Forsyth et al. 2005). One of the important and yet very challenging research goals at NWRT is to optimally design and...

A radar system is generally implemented and addressed to detect the target of concern. So, in a radar system, analysis and application of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) signals solves most of the problems of radar target detection. Since multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar possess significant potentials for fading mitigation, resolution enhancement and interference and jamming suppression, by op...