An Adaptive Filtering Algorithm in Pulse-Doppler Radar for Counteracting Range-Velocity Jamming

Abstract

In this paper, an anti-jamming scheme based on transmitted multiple pulses through random initial phases and adaptive iterative filtering algorithm is considered for counteracting range-velocity deceptive jamming in Pulse-Doppler (PD) radar system. This anti-jamming scheme relies on the fact that the digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) repeated jammer needs more than one pulse repetition interval PRI (at least one PRI) to identify the radar transmitted pulses, and therefore uses the captured pulses of the lag PRIs to reproduce multiple false targets. As a consequence, an adaptive-iterative algorithm to estimate the range-Doppler plane of the real targets in range dimension processing and Doppler dimension processing can appropriately suppress the deceptive false targets, which employed the lagged PRIs for the radar deception. Firstly, the proposed method achieves the optimal estimation of the true targets and false targets in the range dimension. Then, with the estimation information in the range dimension, the presented method estimates the range-Doppler plane of the true targets and false targets. Based on these estimations the deceptive jamming can be easily suppressed with few numbers of iterations and outstanding suppression performance. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method as well as achieving a good trade-off between anti-jamming performance and computational complexity via numerical simulations.