Airborne MIMO Radar Transmit-Receive Design Under Spectral Constraint in Signal-Dependent Clutter

This paper considers the joint design of the transmit waveform and receive filter for airborne multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar under spectral constraint in signal-dependent clutter. The spatial-frequency spectral compatibility constraint is imposed in the joint design problem. To tackle the non-convex joint design problem, we develop an iterative algorithm based on iterative feasible point pursuit successive convex approximation (FPP-SCA). The proposed algorithm can handle the non-convex terms by the convex approximation. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm in terms of better signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and better spectral compatibility ability.