Ping scheduling for multistatic sonar systems

In this paper, we develop a tracking framework for multistatic sonar ping scheduling. This framework provides a unified approach to surveillance and tracking over a search area. The framework is used to dynamically schedule active sonar transmissions from a set of available sources and transmission parameters, including waveforms. This dynamic scheduling will be applied to the problem of detecting and tracking a target in a multistatic sonobuoy field. Results will be presented comparing the tracking performance using our ping schedules with alternative scheduling heuristics.

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