Interpretable ADMM-CSNet for interrupted sampling repeater jamming suppression

Interrupted sampling repeater jamming (ISRJ) is a category of coherent jamming that greatly influences radars' detection performance. Since the ISRJ has greater power than true targets, ISRJ signals can be removed in the time domain. Due to frequency band loss, grating lobes will be produced if pulse compression (PC) is performed directly, which may generate false targets. Compressive sensing (CS) is an effective method to restore the original PC signal. However, it is challenging for classic CS approaches to manually select the optimization parameters (e.g., penalty parameters, step sizes, etc.) in different ISRJ backgrounds. In this article, a network method based on the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), named ADMM-CSNet, is introduced to solve the problem. Based on the strong learning capacity of the deep network, all parameters in the ADMM are learned from radar data utilizing back-propagation rather than manually selecting in traditional CS techniques. Compared with classic CS approaches, a higher ISRJ removal signal restoration accuracy is reached faster. Simulation experiments indicate the proposal performs effectively and accurately for ISRJ removal signal reconstruction.