Abstract
Dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) make efficient use of spectrum, while maintaining reliable robustness against multipath fading for communication and improved estimation accuracy for radar. Nevertheless, it would be costly to use a fully digital beamforming architecture, where each antenna is equipped with a radio frequency (RF) chain. This motivates us to consider hybrid beamforming for OFDM-DFRC system in this work. More specifically, the analog beamformer for the whole bandwidth and digital beamformer for each subcarrier are simultaneously designed, by jointly optimizing the spectral efficiency (SE) of communication and spatial spectrum matching error (SSME) of radar. To tackle the resulting optimization problem, a consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (consensus-ADMM) approach is devised. Further, in a practical sense, we consider the issue of hybrid transmit beamforming design with finite-resolution phase shifters, to facilitate economical implementation of the analog beamformer. Numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.
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