Maximum likelihood detection of PPM signals governed by arbitrary point-process plus additive Gaussian noise

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 1132-1133

  Vilnrotter, V ^a   Simon, M ^a   Srinivasan, M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; ELECTRONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTODIODES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; WHITE NOISE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DECISION STATISTIC;

PULSE POSITION MODULATION;

EID: 0032635982     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990772     Document Type: Article

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