Maximum a posteriori estimation of signal rank

Songsri Sirianunpiboon, Stephen D. Howard, Douglas Cochran

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6 Scopus citations

Abstract

Estimating the number of linearly independent signals impinging on a collection of receivers is of increasing recent interest, particularly in connection with MIMO systems for communications and sensing. This paper derives maximum a posteriori estimators for signal rank from noisy data collected at multiple receivers. Situations in which noise variance is known and unknown are both treated. These estimators are shown to significantly outperform maximum-likelihood/BIC rank estimators.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5676-5680
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479928927
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence, Italy
Duration: May 4 2014May 9 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period5/4/145/9/14

Keywords

  • Bayesian detection
  • MAP estimation
  • MIMO communications
  • multi-channel sensing
  • rank estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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