Polarization Filtering Based Interference Suppressions for Cooperative Radar Sensor Network

Abstract

The radar members are likely to interfere with each other if their waveforms and polarized states are not orthogonal in radar sensor network (RSN). In this paper, we propose the oblique projection polarization filtering (OPPF) based interference suppressions for RSN where each radar member is equipped with the orthogonally dual-polarized antenna (ODPA). In our discussed cooperative environment, under which radar members share their polarized states, members radiate EM waves using the same waveform but different polarized states, however, their polarized states are not needed to be orthogonal. Doppler-Shift and its uncertainty are not involved due to the independence from the polarized state, which makes the proposed method simple and effective. The results demonstrate that, after passing through the proposed OPPF scheme, each radar member can effectively suppress the echoes from the others while keep its own amplitude and phase unchanged, which improves the target detection performance of the RSN. Theoretical analysis is done, and the simulation results are illustrated, both showing the proposed method suitable for suppressing interferences for RSN.