Robust Beamforming Design for Co-existing Radar and Communication System
with Bounded Error Model
Abstract
The achievement of optimum performance of a co-existing radar and
communication (CRC) system is a challenging task when the channel state
information (CSI) for the interference channels is imperfect,
particularly when the power of the CRC system is restricted. To address
this issue, this article proposes a robust CRC system design that
considers CSI uncertainty. Specifically, the objective is to design a
robust beamforming scheme to maximize the radar performance subject to
the user signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR)and the
transmit power of the CRC system. Due to the infinite number of
constraints that result from the CSI uncertainty of the interference
channels, a loosely bound robust approach is developed, which employs
the shrinkage method to convert the infinite number of constraints into
a finite number of constraints. However, the performance of the loosely
bound robust approach is not satisfactory. Therefore, this paper further
proposes a sub-optimal robust approach that employs the S-procedure to
transform the infinite number of inequality constraints into equivalent
finite linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The simulation results
indicate that the design of the robust CRC system can significantly
improve the system performance compared to the traditional design
approach.