Synthetic algorithm for deinterleaving radar signals in a complex environment

Abstract

The electronic support measure has a pivotal role in electronic warfare. Radar signal deinterleaving achieves complex radar pulse streams to deinterleave by analysing the intercepted radar emitter signals and estimating the pulse repetition interval (PRI) values. At present, most of the deinterleaving algorithms use the classical model of pre-sorting combined with the PRI deinterleaving algorithm, which is challenging to adapt to the current radar environment. The agility of pulse parameters increases the error rate; the existence of PRI jitter and pulse missing leads to the sub-harmonic problem and low estimation accuracy; the overall algorithm real time is mediocre. To overcome these disadvantages, the authors propose a synthetic algorithm incorporating the statistical histogram into pre-sorting, combining the improved sequence difference histogram algorithm with the multi-width PRI transform in PRI deinterleaving. The simulation results show that the algorithm can accurately estimate the PRI values in a short time and detect various radar signals. C language experiments validate the algorithm in real time.