Signal Processing in Radar and Wireless Communication Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Radar technology, once only used in military systems, is becoming useful for common devices in various commercial applications, including remote-sensing, vehicle driver assistance, gesture recognition, situational awareness, and health monitoring. Recently, various attempts have been made to endow wireless communication systems with radar capabilities, such as positioning, localization, and classification. Some examples include passive radar, radio frequency identification (RFID), and mobile localization using cellular or WiFi network signals. Radar systems with communication capabilities, however, have an even older history—as can be seen in mid-course interceptor missile guidance via fire control radar. Such joint processing of radar and communication is possible due to similarities in the nature of their target and symbol detection processes, which yield similarities in their respective hardware and algorithms.

We solicit original research articles on radar or wireless communication—joint or independent—on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• radar and communication coexistence;
• optimal detection of Swerling radar targets in clutter or of communication symbols fading in a noisy channel;
• synchronization in a multistatic radar system or in a communication system;
• MIMO array antenna for radar and/or wireless communication;
• design of waveforms for radar and/or precoders in wireless communication;
• mitigating multipath channel effects in radar or equalization in wireless communication;
• adaptive and fixed beamforming techniques;
• interference reduction techniques;
• tracking/localization of targets with radar or of mobiles with wireless communication networks;
• task scheduling in multifunction radar or in a mobile communication network; and
• machine-learning-based classification of radar targets or communication signals.

Prof. Dr. Raviraj Adve
Dr. Graham Brooker
Prof. Dr. Joohwan Chun
Dr. Hasan S. Mir
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.