In order to suppress effectively the interference signal and improve further the performance of radar system, a joint transmitting subarray partition and beamforming design method based on two-dimensional phased-MIMO radar is proposed. Firstly, the transmitting array of MIMO radar system is equally partitioned into a number of non-overlapping subarrays and the transmit power of each antenna is equal, so as to guarantee that the transmit signal has constant modulus characteristic. Then, the optimization model for subarray structure of transmitting array, transmit beamformer weight vectors and receive beamformer weight vector is established by maximizing the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of the receive beamformer under certain constraint conditions. Simulation results demonstrate the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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