# A Load Balancing Surveillance Algorithm For Multifunctional Radar Resource Management

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a load balancing algorithm for multifunctional radar systems that ensures consistent surveillance coverage by managing resource allocation effectively across sectors, especially under overload conditions.

## Contribution

It proposes a novel resource management technique that maintains balanced surveillance sector revisit times in rotating antenna radar systems.

## Key findings

- The algorithm improves surveillance sector coverage during overloads.
- It maintains similar revisit times across sectors.
- Applicable to systems with rotating antennas.

## Abstract

For all multifunctional radar systems the allocation of resources plays an outstanding role. Many radars have low priority on surveillance tasks. In challenging situations this leads to neglecting of surveillance beams in directions where many other tasks are done. This document presents a technique that enables multifunctional radar systems to keep on scanning overloaded surveillance sectors under the condition that all sectors have a similar revisit time. Since radar resource management depends on the used system, two general configurations are considered in this paper. The focus lies on systems with a rotating antenna.