Non-Cooperative Detection of Ultra Wideband Signals

Abstract

Techniques for the non-cooperative (non-matched filter) detection of impulse-like ultra wideband signals using channelized receiver architectures are developed and evaluated. Each technique considered is modeled and simulations conducted to characterize detection performance, the results of which are compared with the detection performance of three receivers: the matched filter receiver, which provides optimum detection performance in AWGN; the radiometer, or energy detector; and the multi-aperture cross correlation receiver. It is shown that a channelized receiver (with no downconversion) can provide approximately 2.5 dB improvement over the radiometer when performing detection using the temporal-temporal matrix (TTM). The TTM processing technique provides the best performance of all the proposed channelized receiver techniques. Detection with a downconverting channelized receiver is shown dependent on mixer phase value with performance variation generally minimized as the number of channels increases (channel bandwidth decreases).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA430560

Entities

People

  • Brett D. Gronholz

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Correlation Techniques
  • Cross Correlation
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • False Alarms
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Governments
  • Matched Filters
  • Modulation
  • Radio Frequency Filters
  • Signal Detection
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

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  • Radio communications and signal processing.