Compressive Sensing Based Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation In Mimo Radars In Presence Of Strong Jamming Via Blocking Matrix

The performances of the traditional anti-jamming DOA methods for the colocated MIMO radar system will be seriously deteriorated when the number of the snapshots is small. In this paper, a compressive sensing (CS)-based anti-jamming DOA estimation with only a few snapshots is proposed. In the new DOA estimation, the information on the direction of strong jamming is used to construct a blocking matrix that can block the jamming component effectively. Hence, only the desired signal component is left after preprocessing with the blocking matrix. Then, the DOA estimation problem with a blocking matrix is formulated as a sparse recovery problem, and it is solved by the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm. We compare the proposed method with the traditional CS-based method and the traditional anti-jamming DOA methods. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the traditional methods.