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Efficient design method for the low correlation zone orthogonal polyphase code

ZHANG Wei;YANG Minglei;CHEN Baixiao   

  1. (National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China)
  • Received:2016-01-13 Online:2017-02-20 Published:2017-04-01

Abstract:

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar can fundamentally improve radar performance by using the orthogonal polyphase code with a low correlation zone(LCZ) in some conditions. A novel approach based on the prediction model is proposed to design such orthogonal signals more efficiently and more effectively than the traditional optimization method. An initial polyphase code set with a short code-length is randomly generated as a basis first, and then minimizing the weighed energy of autocorrelation sidelobes and cross-correlation in the LCZ to predict the next code of each signal continuously, until reaching any appointed code-length. Compared with the common optimization methods, the computational complexity is lower due to the recursive calculation of the correlation function, and especially, the obtained waves have a lower autocorrelation peak sidelobe and cross-correlation peak, meeting the deduced theoretical bound of the ratio of peak sidelobe to mainlobe.

Key words: multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar, low correlation zone (LCZ), orthogonal polyphase code, prediction model, theoretical bound, low complexity