Radar communications for combating mutual interference of FMCW radars
Paper in proceeding, 2019

Commercial automotive radars used today are based on frequency modulated continuous wave signals due to the simple and robust detection method and good accuracy. However, the increase in both the number of radars deployed per vehicle and the number of such vehicles leads to mutual interference, cutting short future plans for autonomous driving and active safety functionality. We propose and analyze a radar communications (RadCom) approach to reduce this mutual interference while simultaneously offering communication functionality. We achieve this by frequency division multiplexing radar and communications, where communications is built on a decentralized carrier sense multiple access protocol and is used to adjust the timing of radar transmissions. Our simulation results indicate that radar interference can be significantly reduced, at no cost in radar accuracy.

Author

Canan Aydogdu

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Nil Garcia

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Lars Hammarstrand

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

10975659 (ISSN)

8835744
978-172811679-2 (ISBN)

2019 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2019
Boston, USA,

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2019.8835744

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