Joint Communication and Jamming System Design Based on Filter Bank Multicarrier Chirp Waveform: Using for Curvilinear Flight Scenario

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 15; no. 5; p. 1239
• Main Authors: Liu, Gaogao, Yang, Wenbo, Bao, Yuqian, Wang, Youming, Li, Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Aircraft; Banks (Finance); Bit error rate; Business metrics; Chirp signals; Communication; Communications equipment; Communications systems; Delay time; Design; Doppler radar; Efficiency; FBMC chirp waveform; filter bank multicarrier (FBMC); Filter banks; Frequency dependence; Frequency modulation; Frequency shift; Jamming; joint communication and jamming; Pulse Doppler radar; Radar; Radar meteorology; Radar systems; Remote sensing; Robustness; Signal processing; Subcarriers; Subsystems; Systems design; Target detection; waveform design; Waveforms
• ISSN: 2072-4292; 2072-4292
• DOI: 10.3390/rs15051239

A joint communication jamming waveform is proposed in this study based on the FBMC- chirp. To increase the number of false targets in a single pulse period, the chirp signal is modulated to different subcarrier groups. Since the subcarriers of the FBMC-OQAM signal are orthogonal, the signals are naturally orthogonal. This allows the transmitter and receiver to be separated and achieve multiple false target jamming, allowing the CFAR threshold to be raised by about 20 dB and protecting the target from detection. The ratio of the frequency shift of the designed jamming signal to the frequency modulation depends on the delay time, making the joint signal more robust in response to jamming and resistant to frequency modulation. The use of intercepted radar signals allowed channel estimation, providing high-speed digital transmission while ensuring multi-false-target jamming. The simulation results show that the joint signal has jamming effects on the pulse Doppler radar. The proposed FBMC chirp joint waveform requires about 20 dB less jamming signal ratio than the existing method, and thus the energy saved can ensure the robust performance of the communication subsystem in the joint communication jamming system. The proposed system has excelled in communication rate and bit error rate performance, ensuring that instructions are accurately and completely transmitted while implementing effective jamming.