Feasibility study of LTE signal as a new illuminators of opportunity for passive radar applications

Salah, Asem A.; Abdullah, Rusli; Ismail, Ahmed; Hashim, Fazirulhisham Bin; Leow, Chee Yen; Roslee, Mardeni; Rashid, Nur Emileen Abdul

doi:10.1109/rfm.2013.6757261

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“…As a first example for the purposes of this work, we consider the LTE (Long Term Evolution) waveform [20,21].…”

Section: A the Lte Signal And Modulation Formatmentioning

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“…LTE may operate across several frequency bands; 32 bands are defined by the standardization body 3GPP [22] with frequencies ranging from 729 MHz to 3.8 GHz. Operators are allocated specific spectrum bands depending on licensing and bandwidth requirements, with widths that are multiples of 5MHz for example in the UK operators are allocated bands of 5,10,15,20,25 and 35 MHz [23]. LTE uses various modulation formats depending on the type of information transmitted and the quality of the wireless channel with QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM defined in the standard [24].…”

Section: A the Lte Signal And Modulation Formatmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Waveform design for Commensal Radar

Griffiths

Darwazeh

Inggs

2015

2015 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)

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Commensal Radar has been proposed as a means of addressing the spectrum congestion problem. It may be defined as a passive bistatic radar (PBR) in which the communications, broadcast or radionavigation waveform is designed not only so that it fulfils its primary purpose, but also so that its properties are in some sense optimized as radar signals. This paper develops these ideas, using as examples some modern digital communications and broadcast modulation formats and an experimental testbed.

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“…As a first example for the purposes of this work, we consider the LTE (Long Term Evolution) waveform [20,21].…”

Section: A the Lte Signal And Modulation Formatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A the Lte Signal And Modulation Formatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Waveform design for Commensal Radar

Griffiths

Darwazeh

Inggs

2015

2015 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)

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“…Among the characteristics, the LTE signal has a broad bandwidth differs from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz which provides a high range resolution in comparison to other illuminators of opportunity (i.e., GSM, DVB and DAB). The variety of the LTE allocated frequency bands (800 MHz–3.5 GHz) allowing the LTE to be deployed in many countries, consequences a future broad coverage of the LTE in the worldwide [18]. Additionally, the number of commercial LTE networks is seeing a massive increase year by year.…”

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Analysis on Target Detection and Classification in LTE Based Passive Forward Scattering Radar

Abdullah

Aziz

Rashid

et al. 2016

Sensors

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The passive bistatic radar (PBR) system can utilize the illuminator of opportunity to enhance radar capability. By utilizing the forward scattering technique and procedure into the specific mode of PBR can provide an improvement in target detection and classification. The system is known as passive Forward Scattering Radar (FSR). The passive FSR system can exploit the peculiar advantage of the enhancement in forward scatter radar cross section (FSRCS) for target detection. Thus, the aim of this paper is to show the feasibility of passive FSR for moving target detection and classification by experimental analysis and results. The signal source is coming from the latest technology of 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base station. A detailed explanation on the passive FSR receiver circuit, the detection scheme and the classification algorithm are given. In addition, the proposed passive FSR circuit employs the self-mixing technique at the receiver; hence the synchronization signal from the transmitter is not required. The experimental results confirm the passive FSR system’s capability for ground target detection and classification. Furthermore, this paper illustrates the first classification result in the passive FSR system. The great potential in the passive FSR system provides a new research area in passive radar that can be used for diverse remote monitoring applications.

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“…The above mentioned LTE signal characteristics and other factors had motivated this research group to study the feasibility of LTE signals as the new illuminator of opportunity for passive radar applications for the first time as in [12], where the LTE signal was fully analysed based on the range, Doppler ambiguities and resolutions. The results showed that the LTE signal is attractive to be used for passive radar applications since it can achieve a good range and Doppler resolution of 8.6 m and 0.132 m/s, respectively.…”

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Moving Target Detection by Using New Lte-Based Passive Radar

Abdullah

Salah

Rashid

2015

PIER B

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This paper examines the feasibility of Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based passive radar for detecting ground moving targets. Specifically, the focus of this paper is to describe the proposed LTE-based passive radar system and to conduct an experiment using a real LTE eNB transmitter as an illumination source. Seven scenarios were carried out to investigate the detection performance of the proposed system on ground moving targets with different speeds, trajectories and range. In addition, multi-target detection was also tested. The experimental results showed that the LTE-based passive radar system has the capability to detect typical ground targets like cars, motorbikes and humans moving at different trajectories. LTE is a new communication system and very few experimental result with real LTE signal has been published, thus the result and analysis from this paper will complement the technical readiness of the so called LTE based passive Radar. The positive results opened up a new frontier for passive radar systems to be used in many potential applications, including security, border protection, microwave fences, monitor of buildings and others.

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Feasibility study of LTE signal as a new illuminators of opportunity for passive radar applications

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Waveform design for Commensal Radar

Waveform design for Commensal Radar

Analysis on Target Detection and Classification in LTE Based Passive Forward Scattering Radar

Moving Target Detection by Using New Lte-Based Passive Radar

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