Waveform Design for MIMO Radar Transmit Beampattern Formation With Good Range Sidelobes

In this paper, we focus on the waveform optimization problem of transmit beampattern design for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with low matched filtering range sidelobes (MFRS). The waveform is designed by minimizing a weighted summation of the transmit beampattern matching errors and the MFRS level under constant modulus constraint. Since the resulting problem is NP-hard, some auxiliary variables are introduced to recast it as a bi-convex quadratic problem, and then the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is applied to efficiently solve it. Finally, simulation results are presented to validate our approach.