ECCM Scheme for Countering Main-Lobe Interrupted Sampling Repeater Jamming via Signal Reconstruction and Mismatched Filtering

Abstract

Digital radio frequency memory (DRFM)-based main-lobe interrupted sampling repeater jamming (ISRJ) can achieve the effects of both deception and suppression, which cause serious performance degradation in modern radar systems. In this article, we propose an electronic counter-countermeasure (ECCM) scheme based on signal reconstruction and mismatched filtering (SC-MMF). The ECCM scheme consists of two steps: time-domain signal reconstruction and mismatched filter (MMF) design. First, the time-domain signal without noise is reconstructed using the provided jamming perception information. Then, an MMF corresponding to the reconstructed signal is designed to suppress ISRJ targets. The MMF design problem is formulated as a problem of minimizing the peak false target level (PFTL) and is solved with an improved alternating projection algorithm. After mismatched filtering, ISRJ targets are suppressed. Numerical simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed method and explore the impacts of various parameters on its performance. Moreover, results obtained on measured data show that the proposed method has practical value in engineering applications.