Phase Coded Waveforms for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems

Abstract

Nowadays, especially with the developments in the automotive industry, it has become a highly popular topic for radar and communication systems to operate on the same platform and perform joint tasks to increase situational awareness. Sharing the hardware of the radar and communication systems and using a joint waveform for both functions eliminate interference problems between the systems, increasing the effectiveness of the joint task. In studies where radar signals are utilised for communication functions, continuous wave frequency modulation or intra-pulse frequency modulation is generally employed to transmit communication signals. There are a few studies in the literature on joint radar and communication waveforms using phase modulation. In these studies, phase modulation is not employed directly for both functions. As a contribution to the literature, this study evaluates the usage of joint radar and communications waveforms, such as Barker sequences and Zadoff-Chu sequences as opposed to linear frequency modulation. We compare these waveforms terms of range-speed detection and symbol error rate.