Abstract
In this letter, the optimality of equal gain combining (EGC) for energy detection of unknown signals in a system with receive-diversity is studied. It is shown that EGC results in an optimal test statistic for inflnitesimally small signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs); however, it does not yield the optimal test for all SNR values according to the Neyman-Pearson criterion. In other words, EGC does not induce a uniformly most powerful (UMP) test for unknown signal detection.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 772-774 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Communications Letters |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Modeling and Simulation
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- Diversity
- Energy detection
- Neyman-Pearson criterion