Design of Doppler Resilient Sequences and Receiving Filters Against Interrupted-Sampling Repeater Jamming for Simultaneously Polarimetric Radars

Abstract

Aimed to enhance the robustness of simultaneously polarimetric radar (SPR) systems against interrupted-sampling repeater jamming (ISRJ) attacks by polarization and waveform diversity techniques, this article focuses on the joint design of unimodular sequences and receiving filters for jamming suppression. Specifically, we first develop a dynamic signal processing framework for target polarization scattering matrix (PSM) estimation based on their statistical properties and orthogonal conditions between receiving filters and ISRJ signals. Then, the weighted sum of integrated sidelobe levels (ISLs) of auto- and cross-ambiguity functions and signal-to-noise ratio losses (SNRLs) is minimized with unimodular and energy constraints to mitigate ISRJ in SPR systems considering both single pulse and multipulse. To handle the resulting NP-hard design problems, an iterative optimization method capitalizing on the alternating direction and majorization-minimization (MM) framework is proposed. The numerical results are provided to show the superiority of the proposed algorithm in comparison with a pair of linear frequency modulation (LFM) waveforms with opposite slopes with respect to the anti-ISRJ performance.