A New Transmit Beamforming Method for Multi-User Communication in Dual-Function Radar-Communication

摘要

This paper develops a new transmit beamforming for an integrated mechanical and electrical scanning dual-function radar-communication(DFRC)system.Differing from the related some works using beampattern sidelobe level to communication,we exploit the fact that transmit beamforming weight vector u k in directionθand weight vector u*k in direction-θcan achieve the same spatial power distribution,and formulate a new transmit beamforming vector design problem accounting for some extra sidelobe level constraints.By doing so,the number of the transmit beamforming weight vectors and the computing demand in the multi-user communication(MUC)scenario can be reduced.Finally,the numerical examples are designed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed design strategy in comparison with the existing method.