Fast estimation of the parameters of alpha-stable impulsive interference

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1492-1503

  Tsihrintzis, George A ^a,b,c   Nikias, Chysostomos L ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC EXTREME VALUE THEORY; FRACTIONAL LOWER ORDER MOMENTS; IMPULSIVE INTERFERENCE; MIDDLETON MODEL;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030170610     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.506614     Document Type: Article

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