Coordinated Deception Jamming Power Scheduling for Multijammer Systems Against Distributed Radar Systems

The rapid development of cooperative techniques and anti-jamming methods in modern radar systems has significantly improved the mission performance and survivability of radars. In practical applications, the single jammer system cannot cope with the cooperative technology of the radar system due to its single interference pattern and spatial angle. To combat distributed radar systems, in this article, we construct and solve a resource management problem with the goal of minimizing the false target rejection probability, while being constrained by the deception jamming power budget of the multijammer system. First, the posterior Cramér-Rao lower bounds (PCRLBs) including target state and deception parameters related to the radar system under deception jamming are derived. On this basis, a false target discriminator is designed and the corresponding rejection probability is derived, which is regarded as the metric to assess the deception jamming performance. Then, the deception jamming power scheduling (DJPS) problem of the multijammer system for cooperatively combating distributed radar systems is constructed, subject to the system resource configurations. Due to the nonconvexity of the false target rejection probability, the formulated problem is inherently nonconvex. To effectively address this problem, a modified particle swarm optimization (MPSO) algorithm is presented. Numerical simulations verify that the proposed strategy and MPSO algorithm show superior deception jamming performance in combating distributed radar systems.