Mohammad Hossein SEDAAGHI, Mostafa BAGHERI

A new approach to pulse deinterleaving based on adaptive thresholding

Since histogram-based methods are formed by some simple differences, they are very desirable for deinterleav- ing. However, their main imperfection concerns recognizing complex pulse repetition interval (PRI) patterns like jittered and staggered ones. In this paper, we present new thresholds to detect jittered and staggered PRI from histogram-based methods even in complex circumstances such as noisy time of arrival (TOA), complex PRI patterns, and large missing pulses. Simulation results demonstrate that our method can detect and extract constant, jittered, and staggered PRI correctly. Moreover, the method is proved to be considerably robust and reliable at a missing pulses rate up to 30%.

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