Angle Estimation for Bistatic MIMO Radar Using One-Bit Sampling Via Atomic Norm Minimization

In this article, we focus on the bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar that performs one-bit quantization of received echo data. Based on the one-bit bistatic MIMO radar, we devise an effective algorithm for joint direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. By exploiting the signal sparsity, we first formulate a decoupled atomic norm minimization problem to reconstruct two noise-free covariance matrices from one-bit quantized data. Subsequently, we apply the MUSIC algorithm on two reconstructed matrices to estimate the DODs and DOAs of targets, respectively. Furthermore, an additional procedure is proposed to achieve pairing of the estimated DODs and DOAs. The proposed algorithm can achieve satisfactory estimation performance only using single-pulse data. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.