The invention discloses an SINR maximization method for an IRS-assisted dual-function
radar communication
system, and the method achieves the maximization of the SINR of an
MIMO radar through the joint transmission beam forming and phase shift optimization technology under the condition of considering the existence of an
eavesdropping target in an intelligent reflection surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-input-multiple-output (
MIMO)
radar. According to the method, an IRS-assisted dual-function radar communication (IDFRC)
system considering a
physical layer security (PLS) technology is established, a transmitting beam former, an
artificial noise vector and the phase shift of an IRS are jointly optimized to maximize the SINR of an
MIMO radar, and in order to solve the
optimization problem non-convexity caused by the non-concavity of a security
rate function, a block
coordinate descent (BCD)
algorithm is used to alternately update the transmit power and the phase shift of the IRS. Specifically, a controlled minimization (MM)
algorithm is utilized to optimize a phase shift at a given transmit power, a first-order Taylor expansion is utilized to convert a problem into a convex
optimization problem, and two transmit
beamforming vectors are designed to detect a target and securely transmit information to a legal
receiver. The method has the advantages that the complexity is low, the
signal to interference plus
noise ratio of the radar is remarkably improved, and the feasibility and the practicability are high.