Threshold Detection in Correlated Non-Gaussian Noise Fields

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 976-1000

  Middleton, David ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

coherent and incoherent reception; correlated noise field; correlation gain factor; moving average (MA) noise model; optimum and suboptimum detection; quasiequivalent (QE )noise model; Threshold detection; Toeplitz noise covariance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION DETECTORS; CORRELATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WHITE NOISE;

COHERENT AND INCOHERENT RECEPTION; CORRELATED NOISE FIELD; CORRELATION GAIN FACTOR; MOVING AVERAGE NOISE MODEL; OPTIMUM AND SUBOPTIMUM DETECTION; THRESHOLD DETECTION; TOEPLITZ NOISE COVARIANCE; ZERO MEMORY NONLINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0029343236     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.391244     Document Type: Article

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