Viterbi Tracking of Randomly Phase-Modulated Data (and Related Topics).

Abstract

In this final report we formulate the problems of phase and frequency estimation as fixed interval smoothing problems. Forward dynamic programming algorithms are derived to find maximum posterior sequence estimates that pass likely sequences through the data. The algorithms extend the threshold usually associated with phase lock loops. The algorithms are applied to simultaneous phase estimation and data decoding in phase jitter channels. The resulting error probabilities are the lowest currently achievable. The results indicate that there are many problems in the domain of filtering and signal processing that can be profitably reformulated as sequence estimation problems. Our interest in likelihood leads us from frequency tracking to exact likelihood for autoregressive moving average (ARMA) data. Fast Kalman filtering algorithms are derived for constructing exact likelihood in multivariable ARMA models. Several interesting connections are established between Wold, Kolmogorov, Wiener, and Kalman representations of stationary time series. Ideas are proposed for associating spectra with linear transformations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 10, 1982
Accession Number
ADA118613

Entities

People

  • Louis L. Louis L. Scharf

Organizations

  • Colorado State University

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  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

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  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
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  • Computers
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  • Data Transmission Systems
  • Decoding
  • Demodulation
  • Digital Communications
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Image Processing
  • Information Theory
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Military Research
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Processing
  • Statistical Sampling

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  • Engineering

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  • Statistical inference.