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Due to the flourishing development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and autonomous driving, interference between radar sensing and communication signals becomes a challenging issue. We propose a transmit beamforming based spectrum sharing scheme to achieve peaceful coexistence between automotive multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) radar and communication systems. Our objective is to maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the automotive radar receiver subject to the communication capacity and the transmitted power budget constraints to optimize both the communication covariance matrix and the radar transmit precoder. The formulated optimization problem is non-convex, which is converted to convex by introducing a new slack variable and then solving it using the block coordinate descent, also called alternation optimization, approach. Additionally, the ellipsoid sub-gradient method is then employed to reduce the computational complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme outperforms the conventional schemes.

Massive antenna array has been proposed to improve the spectral efficiency and link reliability in wireless communication systems. However, using large antenna arrays incurs additional cost in terms of signal processing and hardware complexity. The electromagnetic (EM) lens-focusing antennas are introduced as a promising technique to reduce the hardware complexity and cost. On the other hand, determining the location of users in terms of their direction-of-arrival (DoA) using these lens array becomes of great interest for different 5G services. This paper addresses the issue of DoA estimation by adopting lens antenna array (LNA). We firstly derive an expression for the received signal with the adoption of LNA, and then a maximum likelihood (ML) estimator for the DoA has been obtained. Depending on the ability of the lens array to focus the signal power on a subset of antennas as a function of DoA. We propose using the antenna selection (AS) technology to select an antenna subset aiming to reduce the number of radio frequency (RF) chains and accordingly reducing the hardware cost. The simulation results show the the capability of the proposed method to avoid the phase ambiguity problem and provide high accurate DoA estimation of signals.

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