Feasibility study of LTE signal as a new illuminators of opportunity for passive radar applications

Author

Salah, Albert Ali ; Abdullah, R.S.A. ; Ismail, A. ; Hashim, Fazirulhisyam ; Leow, C.Y. ; Roslee, M.B. ; Rashid, N.E.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Syst. Eng., Univ. Putra Malaysia (UPM) Serdang, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

258

Lastpage

262

Abstract

Recently, there has been an evolution of mobile networks towards the fourth generation radio wireless communications (4G) as LTE (Long Term Evolution). In this paper, the feasibility of using LTE-based passive radar is investigated to take advantage of using LTE signal as illuminator of opportunity for moving object monitoring. An analysis of ambiguity function is done on a typical LTE waveform to assess the Doppler and range characteristics. The initial results and analysis show that LTE signal range and Doppler resolutions of 7.5m and 0.11m/s can be achieved, respectively.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Doppler radar; Long Term Evolution; passive radar; radar tracking; 4G; Doppler characteristics; LTE signal; LTE-based passive radar; Long Term Evolution; ambiguity function; distance 7.5 m; fourth generation radio wireless communications; illuminator; mobile networks; moving object monitoring; range characteristics; Bandwidth; Doppler effect; Doppler radar; Long Term Evolution; Passive radar; Signal resolution; Ambiguity Function; Doppler Resolution; Illuminators of Opportunity; LTE; Passive Radar; Range Resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Microwave Conference (RFM), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2213-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFM.2013.6757261

Filename

6757261