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In the proposed OIA technique, the radar system sends its signal so that the radar signal is received into interference space at base stations (BSs) of the cellular system, while each uplink user (UE) generates its transmit beamforming vector so that communication signals are received within interference space at the radar receiver. Moreover, to achieve better sum-rate performance of the cellular communication system, the BS selects the UEs which results in sufficiently small interference to other cells for the uplink communication. With the proposed OIA technique, detection performance of the radar system is protected, while the communication system achieves satisfactory sum-rate performance. Through extensive computer simulations, we show that the performances of both radar and communication systems with the proposed technique significantly outperform a conventional null-space projection based spectrum sharing scheme.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20174868","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,28]],"date-time":"2020-08-28T09:17:08Z","timestamp":1598606228000},"page":"4868","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Opportunistic Interference Alignment for Spectrum Sharing between Radar and Communication Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2089-4318","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dong-Hwan","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"},{"name":"Aircraft Radar System PMO, Agency for Defense Development, Dajeon 34186, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7486-8270","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Janghyuk","family":"Youn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4485-9592","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bang Chul","family":"Jung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"201","DOI":"10.1109\/JSAC.2004.839380","article-title":"Cognitive radio: Brain-empowered wireless commnications","volume":"23","author":"Haykin","year":"2005","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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