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In this paper, the Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform is considered for building a pseudo-monostatic, 100MHz Pulse-Doppler radar. The SDR platform has many benefits for experimental communications systems as it offers relatively cheap, parametrically dynamic, off-the-shelf access to the Radiofrequency (RF) spectrum. For this application, the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) X310 hardware package is utilized with GNURadio for interfacing to the device and Matlab for signal post- processing. Pulse doppler radar processing is used to ascertain the range and velocity of a target considered in simulation and in real, over-the-air (OTA) experiments. The USRP platform offers a scalable and dynamic hardware package that can, with relatively low overhead, be incorporated into other experimental systems. This radar system will be considered for implementation into existing over-the-air Joint Radar- Communications (JRC) spectrum sharing experiments. The JRC system considers a co-designed architecture in which a communications user and a radar user share the same spectral allocation. Where the two systems would traditionally consider one another a source of interference, the receiver is able to decode communications information and discern target information via pulse-doppler radar simultaneously.
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Title
- Software defined pulse-doppler radar for over-the-air applications: the joint radar-communications experiment
Contributors
- Gubash, Gerard (Author)
- Bliss, Daniel W (Thesis advisor)
- Richmond, Christ (Committee member)
- Chakrabarti, Chaitali (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2019
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- thesisPartial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2019
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references
- Field of study: Communication
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by Gerard Gubash