Statistical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar may improve the fluctuated target detection by utilizing the multiple separate transmitting and receiving elements. Nevertheless, the transmitting power of single element is reciprocal to the transmitting element number, and the ultimate detection performance of MIMO radar may be inversely deteriorated with the increase of the transmitting elements. In this letter, the optimal transmitting diversity DOF, i.e., the optimal separate transmitting elements, is defined based on the proposed likelihood ratio test (LRT) detectors. Furthermore, with the given false alarm probability and detection probability, the closed-form optimal DOF approximations are derived for the two sub-forms of statistical MIMO radar, i.e., distributed MIMO radar and multiple-input single-output (MISO) radar, respectively. It is shown that a small transmitting diversity DOF, as well as the small number of orthogonal transmitting waveforms, may be needed for optimizing the statistical MIMO radar spatial diversity performance. Finally, numerical experiments are also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
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