Impact of Blockage on the Sensing Performance Using Distributed MIMO Architecture

This paper considers the impact of blockage in distributed radar systems. It is shown, using an integrated radar and communication setup, that monostatic sensing systems are preferred over bistatic systems when the performance is blockage limited. Furthermore, the GLRT and the multistatic detector are compared, where it is shown that the multistatic detector is preferred under blockage, despite being SNR suboptimal.