A Novel Method for Deinterleaving of Radar Signals Using Blind Source Separation

In the modern wars under the condition of informationalization, radar signals are generally characterized by repetitive patterns in time, so it is one important task of Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) to estimate the Pulse Repetition Interval (PRI) of all radar signals by intercepting and identifying the mixed radar signals. Because each transmitted radar signal are arbitrary in general. From the view of statistic, the transmitted radar pulse train from different radars is mutual independent. So the constituted model of RWR and radar transmitters accord with blind source separation which can separate mixed signals into pure signals. A deinterleaving method using blind source separation for estimating the PRI of each radar signals is proposed. The implementation architecture of the proposed method is given. Finally, computer simulations show the proposed method can gain good performance for the estimation of PRI of radar signals.