Statistics of the MLE and Approximate Upper and Lower Bounds–Part II: Threshold Computation and Optimal Pulse Design for TOA Estimation

DOI10.1109/TSP.2014.2355776MaRDI QIDQ4579550zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Achraf Mallat, Sinan Gezici, Davide Dardari, Luc Vandendorpe

Publication date 22 August 2018

Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4647

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

Abstract: Threshold and ambiguity phenomena are studied in Part 1 of this work where approximations for the mean-squared-error (MSE) of the maximum likelihood estimator are proposed using the method of interval estimation (MIE), and where approximate upper and lower bounds are derived. In this part we consider time-of-arrival estimation and we employ the MIE to derive closed-form expressions of the begin-ambiguity, end-ambiguity and asymptotic signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) thresholds with respect to some features of the transmitted signal. Both baseband and passband pulses are considered. We prove that the begin-ambiguity threshold depends only on the shape of the envelope of the ACR, whereas the end-ambiguity and asymptotic thresholds only on the shape of the ACR. We exploit the results on the begin-ambiguity and asymptotic thresholds to optimize, with respect to the available SNR, the pulse that achieves the minimum attainable MSE. The results of this paper are valid for various estimation problems.

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Detection–Estimation of Very Close Emitters: Performance Breakdown, Ambiguity, and General Statistical Analysis of Maximum-Likelihood Estimation

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