Denial of bistatic hosting by spatial–temporal waveform design

Abstract

A set of theoretical techniques to prevent a radar from being used by a bistatic radar receiver as a non-cooperative illuminator are analysed. This works by radiating in addition to the radar signal waveform, a 'masking signal' waveform which is orthogonal to the radar signal waveform, both in the coding domain and the spatial domain. A number of different coding schemes are analysed. Two spatial coding methods are presented and analysed: the first uses a pair of interferometer elements at the extremities of the radar antenna array; the second uses a Butler matrix to generate a set of orthogonal beams. System-level calculations are presented to show the level of masking of the radar signal received by a bistatic radar receiver, and the suppression of the masking signal in the host radar echo. Some ideas for further work are presented.