A joint design of transmit waveforms for radar and communications systems in coexistence

In this paper, we propose a dynamic spectrum allocation approach for the coexistence of a radar system with a communications system whose operating frequency ranges overlap. We develop a combined mutual information criterion for the joint waveform and power spectrum design to optimize the performance of the radar and communications systems. The performance is evaluated in terms of the minimum separation distance between the coexisting systems under the constraint that a predefined operational SINR must be achieved for both systems. Significant performance gains close to 3.5 dB for the communication system and 1 dB for the radar system are observed in terms of the minimum separation distance compared to the scenario when the waveform with equal power allocation across the frequency bandwidth is used.

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