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Signal detection in colored noise with an unknown covariance matrix has a myriad of applications in diverse scientific/engineering fields. The test statistic is the largest generalized eigenvalue (l.g.e.) of the whitened sample covariance…

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This paper investigates the signal detection problem in colored noise with an unknown covariance matrix. In particular, we focus on detecting an unknown non-random signal by capitalizing on the leading eigenvalue of the whitened sample…

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This paper investigates the signal detection problem in colored noise with an unknown covariance matrix. In particular, we focus on detecting a non-random signal by capitalizing on the leading eigenvalue (a.k.a. Roy's largest root) of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Jamie Evans , Merouane Debbah

This paper investigates the signal detection problem in colored Gaussian noise with an unknown covariance matrix. To be specific, we consider a sample deficient scenario in which the number of signal bearing samples ($n$) is strictly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Jamie Evans , Kandeepan Sithamparanathan

The detection problem in statistical signal processing can be succinctly formulated: Given m (possibly) signal bearing, n-dimensional signal-plus-noise snapshot vectors (samples) and N statistically independent n-dimensional noise-only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-26 N. Raj Rao , Jack W. Silverstein

Robust signal detection in colored noise with unknown covariance is essential in radar, cognitive radio, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and quantum sensing applications. This paper develops a unified analytical framework for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Tharindu Udupitiya , Saman Atapattu , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Chintha Tellambura , Merouane Debbah

The subspace-based techniques are widely utilized in various scientific fields, and they need accurate estimation of the signal subspace dimension. The classic RMT estimator for model order estimation based on random matrix theory assumes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Huiyue Yi , Wuxiong Zhang , Hui Xu

Results on the spectral behavior of random matrices as the dimension increases are applied to the problem of detecting the number of sources impinging on an array of sensors. A common strategy to solve this problem is to estimate the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-09 J. W. Silverstein , P. L. Combettes

Spectrum sensing, i.e., detecting the presence of primary users in a licensed spectrum, is a fundamental problem in cognitive radio. Since the statistical covariances of received signal and noise are usually different, they can be used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Yonghong Zeng , Ying-Chang Liang

This paper considers the general signal detection and parameter estimation problem in the presence of colored Gaussian noise disturbance. By modeling the disturbance with an autoregressive process, we present three signal detectors with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-07-29 Bo Tang , Haibo He , Steven Kay

We investigate the potential of quickest detection based on the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix for spectrum sensing applications. A simple phase shift keying (PSK) model with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), with $1$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Martijn Arts , Andreas Bollig , Rudolf Mathar

One-bit sampling has emerged as a promising technique in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems due to its ability to significantly reduce data volume and processing requirements. Nevertheless, current detection methods have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Yu-Hang Xiao , David Ramírez , Lei Huang , Xiao Peng Li , Hing Cheung So

This paper introduces a unified framework for the detection of a source with a sensor array in the context where the noise variance and the channel between the source and the sensors are unknown at the receiver. The Generalized Maximum…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-16 Pascal Bianchi , Merouane Debbah , Mylène Maïda , Jamal Najim

We consider a statistical problem of detection of a signal with unknown energy in a multi-channel system, observed in a Gaussian noise. We assume that the signal can appear in the $k$-th channel with a known small prior probability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Evgeny Burnaev , Georgy Golubev

In many signal processing applications, including communications, sonar, radar, and localization, a fundamental problem is the detection of a signal of interest in background noise, known as signal detection [1] [2]. A simple version of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Tom Anders , Hiten Prakash Kothari , R. Michael Buehrer

We study the matrix denoising problem of estimating the singular vectors of a rank-$1$ signal corrupted by noise with both column and row correlations. Existing works are either unable to pinpoint the exact asymptotic estimation error or,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yihan Zhang , Marco Mondelli

This paper proposes a novel, highly effective spectrum sensing algorithm for cognitive radio and whitespace applications. The proposed spectral covariance sensing (SCS) algorithm exploits the different statistical correlations of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-07 Jaeweon Kim , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper addresses the problem of detecting multidimensional subspace signals, which model range-spread targets, in noise of unknown covariance. It is assumed that a primary channel of measurements, possibly consisting of signal plus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci , Louis L. Scharf

We propose a new testing procedure for detecting localized departures from monotonicity of a signal embedded in white noise. In fact, we perform simultaneously several tests that aim at detecting departures from concavity for the integrated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Nathalie Akakpo , Fadoua Balabdaoui , Cécile Durot

In this paper three different scenarios in wide band spectrum sensing have been studied. While the signal and noise statistics are supposed to be unspecified, random matrixes have been utilized in order to estimate the noise variance. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Sajjad Imani , Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Mehdi Cheraghi
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