Ranked detection of an optical signal
Abstract
Nonparametric ranked statistics are applied to detection of an optical signal by an active receiver. Nonparametric detection involves invariance of false alarm probability with respect to the shape and the parameters of the noise distribution. The asymptotic efficiency of the ranking and detection characteristics for a finite time span and several models of electron number distribution at the receiver sensor output are investigated. The resulting detectors, while in some ways inferior to traditional detectors, respond more efficiently to changes in noise distribution pattern where the performance of their classical counterparts is suboptimal.
- Publication:
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Radioehlektronika
- Pub Date:
- July 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977Radel..20...29A
- Keywords:
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- Optical Communication;
- Rank Tests;
- Signal Detection;
- Communication Theory;
- Electron Distribution;
- Receivers;
- Communications and Radar