A radar system including a narrowband radar receiver configured to receive pulsed radar return signals and a wideband receiver configured for receiving wideband signals. A noise data processor is configured to identify impulse noises by analyzing wideband signals received by the wideband receiver and a radar processor is configured to cancel the identified impulse noises from pulse signals received by the radar receiver. The wideband impulse noises utilized to cancel noise from the pulse signals corresponds to the same time period sweep of detection as that of the pulse signals.

In an embodiment, a method of interference mitigation in a device that includes a millimeter-wave radar, includes transmitting radar signals with the millimeter-wave radar; receiving reflected radar signals with the millimeter-wave radar, the reflected radar signals corresponding to the transmitted radar signals; generating a first spectrogram based on the reflected radar signals; generating a second spectrogram indicative of movement of a non-target object; generating a compensated radar spectrogram based on the first and second spectrograms to compensate for an influence of the movement of the non-target object in the first spectrogram; and detecting a target or a property of the target based on the compensated radar spectrogram.

An apparatus is disclosed for radar interference mitigation using a pseudorandom offset. The apparatus includes an antenna array and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is coupled to the antenna array and is configured to transmit, via the antenna array, a radar transmit signal based on at least one pseudorandom offset. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive, via the antenna array, at least a portion of another radar transmit signal from another apparatus. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to receive, via the antenna array, a radar receive signal that includes a portion of the radar transmit signal that is reflected by an object. At a given time, a frequency of the radar receive signal is different than a frequency of the radar transmit signal based on the at least one pseudorandom offset.

In an embodiment, a method of interference mitigation in a device that includes a millimeter-wave radar, includes transmitting radar signals with the millimeter-wave radar; receiving reflected radar signals with the millimeter-wave radar, the reflected radar signals corresponding to the transmitted radar signals; generating a first spectrogram based on the reflected radar signals; generating a second spectrogram indicative of movement of a non-target object; generating a compensated radar spectrogram based on the first and second spectrograms to compensate for an influence of the movement of the non-target object in the first spectrogram; and detecting a target or a property of the target based on the compensated radar spectrogram.

Techniques are described for a computing device to estimate pulse parameters. A method includes (a) receiving a digitized radio frequency (RF) signal as a digital input signal; (b) feeding the digital input signal into a plurality of input nodes of a trained Pulse Parameter Estimation Neural Network (PPENN), the PPENN having been trained using machine learning; (c) operating the trained PPENN to estimate a plurality of pulse parameters of a set of pulses embedded within a waveform of the digital input signal and to output the plurality of pulse parameters from the trained PPENN; and (d) processing the plurality of pulse parameters to further quantify the set of pulses. A system, apparatus, and computer program product for performing this method and similar methods are also described.

An apparatus is disclosed for radar interference mitigation using a pseudorandom offset. The apparatus includes an antenna array and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is coupled to the antenna array and is configured to transmit, via the antenna array, a radar transmit signal based on at least one pseudorandom offset. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive, via the antenna array, at least a portion of another radar transmit signal from another apparatus. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to receive, via the antenna array, a radar receive signal that includes a portion of the radar transmit signal that is reflected by an object. At a given time, a frequency of the radar receive signal is different than a frequency of the radar transmit signal based on the at least one pseudorandom offset.

A system is provided for joint communication and radar sensing. The system includes at least one communication transmitter unit configured to transmit at least one communication pilot signal, at least one radar transmitter unit configured to transmit at least one radar pilot signal, a control unit configured to schedule the transmission of the at least one communication transmitter unit and/or the at least one radar transmitter unit using a time delay, and at least one receiver unit configured to receive the at least one radar pilot signal with the time delay with respect to the at least one communication pilot signal. A method of using the system for joint communication and radar sensing is also provided.

A radar system including a narrowband radar receiver configured to receive pulsed radar return signals and a wideband receiver configured for receiving wideband signals. A noise data processor is configured to identify impulse noises by analyzing wideband signals received by the wideband receiver and a radar processor is configured to cancel the identified impulse noises from pulse signals received by the radar receiver. The wideband impulse noises utilized to cancel noise from the pulse signals corresponds to the same time period sweep of detection as that of the pulse signals.

A method for coexistence with a pulsed interference source in a communications network includes receiving a communications signal, determining a first portion of the communications signal that is affected by the pulsed interference source, blanking the first portion of the communications signal, and processing the communications signal.

A method for coexistence with a pulsed interference source in a communications network includes identifying transmission time intervals (TTIs) that are affected by pulses from the pulsed interference source and changing a transmission parameter for the TTIs that are affected by pulses.