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Title: EXPLOITING THE CYCLOSTATIONARITY OF RADAR CHIRP SIGNALS WITH TIME-VARYING FILTERS
A time-varying filter is proposed which improves by 5 dB upon traditional FRESH and Wiener filters when rejecting a pulsed radar signal. The filter is a Time-Varying FRESH (TVFRESH) filter, which applies different sets of filter weights in a periodic manner, with the same periodicities of the received signal. Matching the periodicities of the filter to that of the signal improves the rejection of interference, producing a better estimate of the desired signal. The simulated results show mitigating the interference from a radar signal to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1642873
PAR ID:
10043038
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2017 5th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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