Performance of the optimum and several suboptimum receivers for threshold detection of known signals in additive, white, non-Gaussian noise
Abstract
The optimum and several suboptimum receivers for the detection of known signals in additive, white, non-Gaussian noise are identified. The performance of these nonlinear receivers is parametrically compared with the optimum Gaussian receiver using Middleton's Class B Noise Model. The performance of the extremely low frequency (ELF) receiver for the Propagation Validation System is shown to be within 0.5 dB of the optimum for high-level ELF noise.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- November 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980STIN...8118270I
- Keywords:
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- Dynamic Response;
- Nonlinear Systems;
- Optimization;
- Radio Receivers;
- Radio Reception;
- White Noise;
- Distributed Parameter Systems;
- Extremely Low Frequencies;
- Probability Density Functions;
- Reception Diversity;
- Communications and Radar