Tiled Beamspace MVDR for 1024-element Wideband Radar

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Main Authors: Noroozi, Oveys Delafrooz, Han, Jiyoon, Tang, Wei, Zhang, Zhengya, Madhow, Upamanyu
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author Noroozi, Oveys Delafrooz
Han, Jiyoon
Tang, Wei
Zhang, Zhengya
Madhow, Upamanyu
author_facet Noroozi, Oveys Delafrooz
Han, Jiyoon
Tang, Wei
Zhang, Zhengya
Madhow, Upamanyu
contents We present a tiled architecture for computationally efficient digital beamforming for wideband massive MIMO radar, using beamspace dimension reduction for each tile, and coordinated training of reduced-dimension MVDR beamformers across tiles. We illustrate the efficacy of our approach for a setting in which a 1024-element airborne radar platform beamforms towards airborne targets while suppressing strong interference from ground transmitters. The array is organized into eight 128-element tiles, each a 2D array with 4 (vertical) x 32 (horizontal) elements. Each tile applies a 2D spatial DFT to achieve energy concentration in beamspace, and a 1D temporal FFT to channelize the wideband signal into subbands for which narrowband array models apply. A small tile-level beamspace window is selected for each target (depending on its angle of arrival) in each subband, and coordinated training across tiles is used to compute reduced-dimension MVDR beamformers per-target, per-subband. While full-dimensional MVDR processing is infeasible for the system under consideration, we show that our proposed approach significantly outperforms beamspace MVDR beamforming for a single 128-element tile, where we set the dimensions of the spatial filter (and hence the complexity of MVDR training) to be equal in both systems.
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spellingShingle Tiled Beamspace MVDR for 1024-element Wideband Radar
Noroozi, Oveys Delafrooz
Han, Jiyoon
Tang, Wei
Zhang, Zhengya
Madhow, Upamanyu
Signal Processing
We present a tiled architecture for computationally efficient digital beamforming for wideband massive MIMO radar, using beamspace dimension reduction for each tile, and coordinated training of reduced-dimension MVDR beamformers across tiles. We illustrate the efficacy of our approach for a setting in which a 1024-element airborne radar platform beamforms towards airborne targets while suppressing strong interference from ground transmitters. The array is organized into eight 128-element tiles, each a 2D array with 4 (vertical) x 32 (horizontal) elements. Each tile applies a 2D spatial DFT to achieve energy concentration in beamspace, and a 1D temporal FFT to channelize the wideband signal into subbands for which narrowband array models apply. A small tile-level beamspace window is selected for each target (depending on its angle of arrival) in each subband, and coordinated training across tiles is used to compute reduced-dimension MVDR beamformers per-target, per-subband. While full-dimensional MVDR processing is infeasible for the system under consideration, we show that our proposed approach significantly outperforms beamspace MVDR beamforming for a single 128-element tile, where we set the dimensions of the spatial filter (and hence the complexity of MVDR training) to be equal in both systems.
title Tiled Beamspace MVDR for 1024-element Wideband Radar
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06536