Air target recognition method against ISRJ for radio frequency proximity sensors using chaotic stream encryption

The interrupted-sampling repeater jamming (ISRJ) can cause false targets to the radio-frequency proximity sensors (RFPSs), resulting in a serious decline in the target detection capability of the RFPS. This article proposes a recognition method for RFPSs to identify the false targets caused by ISRJ. The proposed method is realized by assigning a unique identity (ID) to each RFPS, and each ID is a periodically and chaotically encrypted in every pulse period. The processing technique of the received signal is divided into ranging and ID decryption. In the ranging part, a high-resolution range profile (HRRP) can be ob-tained by performing pulse compression with the binary chaotic sequences. To suppress the noise, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is applied in the preprocessing. Regarding ID decryption, targets and ISRJ can be recognized through the encryption and decryption processes, which are controlled by random keys. An adaptability analysis conducted in terms of the peak-to-side lobe ratio (PSLR) and bit error rate (BER) indicates that the proposed method performs well within a 70-kHz Doppler shift. A simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method achieves extremely stable target and ISRJ recognition accuracies at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and jamming-to-signal ratios (JSRs).(c) 2022 China Ordnance Society. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license .