Deterministic propagation modeling for joint radar and communication systems

In this paper investigations on the performances of joint radar and communication systems in realistic traffic scenarios are presented. This is achieved by combining dedicated MatLab models for transmitter and receiver with a deterministic propagation simulator based on ray-tracing. Two different approaches towards a joint implementation of radar and communications with one common transmit signal are regarded. In the simulations in particular the direction of arrival estimation with the reflected signal has been investigated for different waveforms and beam-forming algorithms.