Binary Sequences Set with Small ISL for MIMO Radar Systems

In this paper, we aim at designing a set of binary sequences with good aperiodic auto-and cross-correlation properties for Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar systems. We show such a set of sequences can be obtained by minimizing the Integrated Side Lobe (ISL) with the binary requirement imposed as a design constraint. By using the block coordinate descent (BCD) framework, we propose an efficient monotonic algorithm based on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), to minimize the objective function which is non-convex and NP-hard in general. Simulation results illustrate that the ISL of designed binary set of sequences is the neighborhood of the Welch bound, indicating its superior performance.