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Bresler, Yoram Garth, Lee McCandless 2011-05-07T13:55:10Z 2011-05-07T13:55:10Z 10000-01-01 1996 Using the Gaussian noise rejection property of higher-order spectra (HOS), HOS-based detectors can outperform conventional second-order (SOS) techniques in certain scenarios. In this thesis we study the strengths and limitations of HOS detection techniques, as well as proper applications for them. We first compare existing frequency-domain HOS detection techniques with new tests that we propose. We formulate a new F-test statistic and derive refined conditional distributions for the test proposed by Hinich. We calculate the optimal smoothing bandwidth for the HOS estimate components of our F-test and his test, producing the best detector performance. These new bandwidths yield significant improvements in detector performance over previous results. We next consider when HOS detection techniques produce performance gains over traditional SOS-based techniques. We study the tradeoff between HOS and analogous SOS detectors given a processing bandwidth constraint. We demonstrate that, as the bandwidth is decreased, the performance of HOS detectors degrades faster than that of SOS detectors. We examine similar effects on a distributed wideband scenario. We finally propose novel fourth cumulant-based array detectors. We construct detectors for various levels of knowledge regarding the receiving sensor array and the emitter locations and statistics. We analyze both binary hypothesis detectors and information theoretic criteria. Our detectors are designed for the general case of unconstrained and unknown asymptotic covariances of the sample cumulant estimates. In an appendix we illustrate the importance of a finite dimensionality assumption when using functions of asymptotic statistics. We also point to subtleties in using detection statistics stemming from the Central Limit Theorem and Taylor series without entering the Large Deviations regime. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:55:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9712278.pdf: 6885273 bytes, checksum: 3ec42f8335263a82628df2d01ad497b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:00:46Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:28:47-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only 9780591198188 AAI9712278 (UMI)AAI9712278 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22898 eng Copyright 1996 Garth, Lee McCandless Statistics Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Higher-order statistic-based detection of non-Gaussian signals text Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.