Integrated sensing and communication has a broad application prospect, and integrated waveform design is one of its key technologies. In this paper, a new Integrated sensing and communication waveform design method based on Costas encoding is proposed for the current problem,aimed to promote the communication rate and spectral efficiency of the waveform. The waveform embeds information within the sub-pulse of Costas waveform through PSK(Phase Shift Keying) modulation, and at the same time, combines the multicarrier characteristics of Costas waveform, utilizing the waiting time of radar reception to transmit information. Simulation results show that the proposed waveform has a “thumbtack-shaped” fuzzy function, slightly improved delay resolution, the same frequency shift resolution and bit error rate as the comparison waveform, while the communication rate and spectral efficiency can be several times of the comparison waveform. The proposed waveform solves the problems of low communication rate and spectral efficiency of the current Costas-DPSK(Differential Phase Shift Keying) waveform, and it can be applied to more passive integrated sensing and communication application scenarios.
作为通信感知一体化的关键基础之一,解决如何设计一体化波形的问题十分重要。现阶段主要通过从时频等等多维度优化现有雷达或通信波形来设计通感一体化波形[8],例如将常见雷达波形作为正交频分复用(Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM)通信波形的导频或载波[9,10],对线性调频(Linear frequency modulation, LFM)波形进行信息调制[11-13]等。已有的研究主要针对以上两类波形展开,相比之下,对基于Costas频率编码雷达波形的一体化波形设计的研究还不够充分。文献[14]提出了一种Costas/PSK复合波形,该波形通过在Costas编码子脉冲内进行PSK调制提高抗截获性能,但是不具备通信能力;文献[15]采用Costas编码子脉冲的初始相位承载DPSK信号,设计了一种Costas-DPSK一体化水声波形,该波形对于水下探测和通信表现良好,但是其信息传输受Costas码长约束,通信速率和频谱效率还存在较大改进空间。
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