On Designing Sequences With Impulse-Like Periodic Correlation

Abstract

Sequences with impulse-like correlations are at the core of several radar and communication applications. Two criteria that can be used to design such sequences, and which lead to rather different results in the aperiodic correlation case, are shown to be identical in the periodic case. Furthermore, two simplified versions of these two criteria, which similarly yield completely different sequences in the aperiodic case, are also shown to be equivalent. A corollary of these unexpected equivalences is that the periodic correlations of an arbitrary sequence must satisfy an intriguing identity, which is also presented in this letter.