Binary sequence design for transmit diversity MIMO radar

Orthogonal binary sequences play an important role in Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. However, mainly due to mathematical difficulties, the synthesis problem of multiple binary sequences with low auto and cross correlation sidelobes is still an open problem. In this paper, mismatched filter, which basically aims at reducing the sidelobe levels at the pulse compression output, is exploited and multiple binary sequences and mismatched filters are optimized by joint synthesis algorithms (JSA), based on an alternating direction method. JSA for minimizing the integrated sidelobe level (ISL) and peak sidelobe level (PSL) metrics are proposed, and the corresponding computation complexities are analyzed. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms.