Estimation of the modulation index of CPM signals using higher-order statistics

Author

Fonollosa, Javier R. ; Fonollosa, José A R

Author_Institution

Signal & Image Process, Inst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1993

fDate

27-30 April 1993

Firstpage

268

Abstract

Three simple methods are proposed for the estimation of the modulation index of continuous phase modulated signals in noise. These methods employ the estimated autocorrelation and fourth-order cumulant sequences of the received signal after sampling at the symbol rate. Analytic expressions are derived for the asymptotic mean and variance of the estimated parameters which are corroborated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The performance of the methods is illustrated graphically and numerically. It is concluded that, under significant noise degradation, only the scheme based on the fourth-order cumulant sequence can be used to estimate consistently the modulation index h in the range 0(h(1.<>

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; correlation methods; parameter estimation; phase modulation; statistical analysis; CPM signals; Monte Carlo simulations; autocorrelation; continuous phase modulated signals; fourth-order cumulant sequence; higher-order statistics; modulation index; noise degradation; performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1993. ICASSP-93., 1993 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN, USA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7402-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1993.319646

Filename

319646