How can a Radar Mask its Cognition?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11444v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:45:55 GMT
• Title: How can a Radar Mask its Cognition?
• Authors: Kunal Pattanayak and Vikram Krishnamurthy and Christopher Berry
• Abstract summary: A cognitive radar can em hide its strategy from an adversary that detects cognition. The radar does so by transmitting purposefully designed sub-optimal responses to spoof the adversary's Neyman-Pearson detector. We show that small purposeful deviations from the optimal strategy of the radar confuse the adversary by significant amounts.
• Score: 19.044614610714856
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A cognitive radar is a constrained utility maximizer that adapts its sensing mode in response to a changing environment. If an adversary can estimate the utility function of a cognitive radar, it can determine the radar's sensing strategy and mitigate the radar performance via electronic countermeasures (ECM). This paper discusses how a cognitive radar can {\em hide} its strategy from an adversary that detects cognition. The radar does so by transmitting purposefully designed sub-optimal responses to spoof the adversary's Neyman-Pearson detector. We provide theoretical guarantees by ensuring the Type-I error probability of the adversary's detector exceeds a pre-defined level for a specified tolerance on the radar's performance loss. We illustrate our cognition masking scheme via numerical examples involving waveform adaptation and beam allocation. We show that small purposeful deviations from the optimal strategy of the radar confuse the adversary by significant amounts, thereby masking the radar's cognition. Our approach uses novel ideas from revealed preference in microeconomics and adversarial inverse reinforcement learning. Our proposed algorithms provide a principled approach for system-level electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) to mask the radar's cognition, i.e., hide the radar's strategy from an adversary. We also provide performance bounds for our cognition masking scheme when the adversary has misspecified measurements of the radar's response.

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