TY - GEN
T1 - Line spectrum estimation from broadband power detection bits
AU - Mehanna, Omar
AU - Sidiropoulos, Nicholas D.
AU - Tsakonas, Efthymios
PY - 2013/10/22
Y1 - 2013/10/22
N2 - Line spectrum estimation from analog signal samples is a classic problem with numerous applications. However, sending analog or finely quantized signal sample streams to a fusion center is a burden in distributed sensing scenarios. Instead, it is appealing to estimate the frequency lines from a few randomly filtered broadband power measurement bits taken using a network of cheap sensors. This leads to a new problem: line spectrum estimation from inequalities. Three different techniques are proposed for this estimation task. In the first two, the autocorrelation function is first estimated nonparametrically, then a parametric method is used to estimate the sought frequencies. The third is a direct maximum likelihood (ML) parameter estimation approach that uses coordinate descent. Simulations show that the underlying frequencies can be accurately estimated using the proposed techniques, even from relatively few bits; and that the ML estimates obtained with the third technique can meet the Cramer-Rao lower bound (also derived here), when the number of sensors is sufficiently large.
AB - Line spectrum estimation from analog signal samples is a classic problem with numerous applications. However, sending analog or finely quantized signal sample streams to a fusion center is a burden in distributed sensing scenarios. Instead, it is appealing to estimate the frequency lines from a few randomly filtered broadband power measurement bits taken using a network of cheap sensors. This leads to a new problem: line spectrum estimation from inequalities. Three different techniques are proposed for this estimation task. In the first two, the autocorrelation function is first estimated nonparametrically, then a parametric method is used to estimate the sought frequencies. The third is a direct maximum likelihood (ML) parameter estimation approach that uses coordinate descent. Simulations show that the underlying frequencies can be accurately estimated using the proposed techniques, even from relatively few bits; and that the ML estimates obtained with the third technique can meet the Cramer-Rao lower bound (also derived here), when the number of sensors is sufficiently large.
KW - Distributed spectrum sensing
KW - cognitive radio
KW - line spectrum estimation
KW - spectral analysis
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U2 - 10.1109/SPAWC.2013.6612081
DO - 10.1109/SPAWC.2013.6612081
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885813044
SN - 9781467355773
T3 - IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC
SP - 405
EP - 409
BT - 2013 IEEE 14th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE 14th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2013
Y2 - 16 June 2013 through 19 June 2013
ER -