Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs

Radar unconventional active jamming, including unconventional deceptive jamming and barrage jamming, poses a serious threat to wideband radars. This paper proposes an unconventional-active-jamming recognition method for wideband radar. In this method, the visibility algorithm of converting the radar...

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Main Authors: Congju Du, Bin Tang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/10/2344
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Bin Tang
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description Radar unconventional active jamming, including unconventional deceptive jamming and barrage jamming, poses a serious threat to wideband radars. This paper proposes an unconventional-active-jamming recognition method for wideband radar. In this method, the visibility algorithm of converting the radar time series into graphs, called visibility graphs, is first given. Then, the visibility graph of the linear-frequency-modulation (LFM) signal is proved to be a regular graph, and the rationality of extracting features on visibility graphs is theoretically explained. Therefore, four features on visibility graphs, average degree, average clustering coefficient, Newman assortativity coefficient, and normalized network-structure entropy, are extracted from visibility graphs. Finally, a random-forests (RF) classifier is chosen for unconventional-active-jamming recognition. Experiment results show that recognition probability was over 90% when the jamming-to-noise ratio (JNR) was above 0 dB.
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spelling doaj.art-988ed135e8474b72ab466d1c03a74a2c2022-12-22T02:56:30ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-05-011910234410.3390/s19102344s19102344Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility GraphsCongju Du0Bin Tang1School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, ChinaSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, ChinaRadar unconventional active jamming, including unconventional deceptive jamming and barrage jamming, poses a serious threat to wideband radars. This paper proposes an unconventional-active-jamming recognition method for wideband radar. In this method, the visibility algorithm of converting the radar time series into graphs, called visibility graphs, is first given. Then, the visibility graph of the linear-frequency-modulation (LFM) signal is proved to be a regular graph, and the rationality of extracting features on visibility graphs is theoretically explained. Therefore, four features on visibility graphs, average degree, average clustering coefficient, Newman assortativity coefficient, and normalized network-structure entropy, are extracted from visibility graphs. Finally, a random-forests (RF) classifier is chosen for unconventional-active-jamming recognition. Experiment results show that recognition probability was over 90% when the jamming-to-noise ratio (JNR) was above 0 dB.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/10/2344radar unconventional active jammingjamming recognitionvisibility graphsfeature extractionrandom forests
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Bin Tang
Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs
Sensors
radar unconventional active jamming
jamming recognition
visibility graphs
feature extraction
random forests
title Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs
title_full Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs
title_fullStr Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs
title_full_unstemmed Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs
title_short Novel Unconventional-Active-Jamming Recognition Method for Wideband Radars Based on Visibility Graphs
title_sort novel unconventional active jamming recognition method for wideband radars based on visibility graphs
topic radar unconventional active jamming
jamming recognition
visibility graphs
feature extraction
random forests
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/10/2344
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