On some detection and estimation problems in heavy-tailed noise
Signal Processing - Signal processing with heavy-tailed models
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We address the problem of coherent detection of a signal embedded in heavy-tailed noise modeled as a sub-Gaussian, alpha-stable process. We assume that the signal is a complex-valued vector of length L, known only within a multiplicative constant, while the dependence structure of the noise, i.e. the underlying matrix of the sub-Gaussian process, is not known. We implement a generalized likelihood ratio detector that employs robust estimates of the unknown noise underlying matrix and the unknown signal strength. The performance of the proposed adaptive detector is compared with that of an adaptive matched filter that uses Gaussian estimates of the noise-underlying matrix and the signal strength and is found to be clearly superior. The proposed new algorithms are theoretically analyzed and illustrated in a Monte-Carlo simulation