Cognitive radar waveform design for spectral coexistence in signal-dependent interference

In this paper, we deal with cognitive design of the transmit signal and receive filter optimizing the radar detection performance without affecting spectral compatibility with some licensed overlaid electromagnetic radiators. We assume that the radar is embedded in a highly reverberating environment and exploit cognition provided by Radio Environmental Map (REM), to induce spectral constraints on the radar waveform, by a dynamic environmental database, to predict the actual scattering scenario, and by an Electronic Support Measurement (ESM) system, to acquire information about hostile active jammers. At the design stage, we develop an optimization procedure which sequentially improves the Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR). Moreover, we enforce a spectral energy constraint and a similarity constraint between the transmitted signal and a known radar waveform. At the analysis stage, we assess the effectiveness of the proposed technique to optimizing SINR while providing spectral coexistence.