Optimum Detection of M-ary Orthogonal Signals in ELF Noise Environments

Abstract

Explicit receiver structures for the optimum detection of M-ary orthogonal signals in impulsive noise environments typical of ELF are determined. The resulting optimum structures, while shown to bear some resemblance to that which would have been obtained in the presence of Gaussian noise alone, exhibit an interesting nonlinear behavior. The difficulties in the actual implementation of this receiver are discussed, and several definitely suboptimum yet computationally superior structures are suggested. The results are felt to be applicable to a much broader class of channels characterized by impulsive interference.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1972
Accession Number
AD0743004

Entities

People

  • James W. Modestino

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Differential Equations
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Linear Systems
  • Low Density
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Pulse Amplitude
  • Random Variables
  • Shot Noise
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Radio communications and signal processing.