Massive MIMO Radar for Target Detection

06/14/2019
by   Stefano Fortunati, et al.
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Since the seminal paper by Marzetta from 2010, the Massive MIMO paradigm in communication systems has changed from being a theoretical scaled-up version of MIMO, with an infinite number of antennas, to a practical technology. Its key concepts have been adopted in the 5G standard and base stations with 64 fully-digital transceivers have been commercially deployed. Motivated by these recent developments in communication systems, this paper considers a co-located MIMO radar with M_T transmitting and M_R receiving antennas and explores the potential benefits of having a large number of virtual spatial antenna channels N=M_TM_R. Particularly, we focus on the target detection problem and develop a robust Wald-type test that guarantees certain detection performance regardless of the unknown statistical characterization of the clutter disturbance. Closed-form expressions for the probabilities of false alarm and detection are derived for the asymptotic regime N→∞. Numerical results are used to validate the asymptotic analysis in the finite system regime under different disturbance models. Our results imply that there always exists a sufficient number of antennas for which the performance requirements are satisfied, without any a priori knowledge of the clutter statistics. This is referred to as the Massive MIMO regime of the radar system.

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