Kaushik, Aryan, Vlachos, Evangelos, Thompson, John, Nekovee, Maziar and Coutts, Fraser (2022) Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper). IET Signal Processing. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1751-9683

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Abstract

The joint radar-communication (JRC) system is envisioned as an emerging sixth generation (6G) technology to tackle spectral congestion and hardware limitations by jointly implementing the communication and radar sensing on the same hardware platform and using the common radio frequency (RF) resources. Joint radar-communication systems with a multi-antenna setup leads to higher degrees of freedom, and hybrid beamforming can be exploited to achieve lower hardware complexity than conventional fully digital systems. This paper aims to design a spectral efficiency maximisation approach for a 6G inclined JRC system with hybrid beamforming and multi-antenna setup while considering the interference between communication and radar operations and hardware impairments in the system. The rate expressions for communication and radar operations are defined, and the joint spectral efficiency is maximised via optimising the number of RF chains using an efficient selection algorithm taking into account the interference of one operation to the other and system hardware distortion. The simulation results are shown to support the effectiveness of the proposed approach, and they are compared with that of existing fully digital and hybrid beamforming based baseline methods with fixed number of RF chains. The proposed approach also exhibits a desirable communication-radar trade-off in terms of spectral efficiency gains.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Engineering and Design
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2022 07:23
Last Modified:	26 Apr 2022 11:45
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/105284

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