Gaussian Noise (gaussian + noise)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Kinds of Gaussian Noise

  • additive white gaussian noise
  • white gaussian noise


  • Selected Abstracts


    Serially concatenated continuous phase modulation with symbol interleavers: performance, properties and design principles

    EUROPEAN TRANSACTIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Issue 4 2006
    Ming Xiao
    Serially concatenated continuous phase modulation (SCCPM) systems with symbol interleavers are investigated. The transmitted signals are disturbed by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). Compared to bit interleaved SCCPM systems, this scheme shows a substantial improvement in the convergence threshold at the price of a higher error floor. In addition to showing this property, we also investigate the underlying reason by error event analysis. In order to estimate bit error rate (BER) performance, we generalise traditional union bounds for a bit interleaver to this non-binary interleaver. For the latter, both the order and the position of permuted non-zero symbols have to be considered. From the analysis, some principal properties are identified. Finally, some design principles are proposed. Our paper concentrates on SCCPM, but the proposed analysis methods and conclusions can be widely used in many other systems such as serially concatenated trellis coded modulation (SCTCM) et cetera. Copyright © 2006 AEIT [source]


    Geoelectric dimensionality in complex geological areas: application to the Spanish Betic Chain

    GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2004
    Anna Martí
    SUMMARY Rotational invariants of the magnetotelluric impedance tensor may be used to obtain information on the geometry of underlying geological structures. The set of invariants proposed by Weaver et al. (2000) allows the determination of a suitable dimensionality for the modelling of observed data. The application of the invariants to real data must take into account the errors in the data and also the fact that geoelectric structures in the Earth will not exactly fit 1-D, 2-D or simple 3-D models. In this work we propose a method to estimate the dimensionality of geoelectric structures based on the rotational invariants, bearing in mind the experimental error of real data. A data set from the Betic Chain (Spain) is considered. We compare the errors of the invariants estimated by different approaches: classical error propagation, generation of random Gaussian noise and bootstrap resampling, and we investigate the matter of the threshold value to be used in the determination of dimensionality. We conclude that the errors of the invariants can be properly estimated by classical error propagation, but the generation of random values is better to ensure stability in the errors of strike direction and distortion parameters. The use of a threshold value between 0.1 and 0.15 is recommended for real data of medium to high quality. The results for the Betic Chain show that the general behaviour is 3-D with a disposition of 2-D structures, which may be correlated with the nature of the crust of the region. [source]


    Artificial neural network inversion of magnetotelluric data in terms of three-dimensional earth macroparameters

    GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1 2000
    Vjacheslav Spichak
    The possibility of solving the three-dimensional (3-D) inverse problem of geoelectrics using the artificial neural network (ANN) approach is investigated. The properties of a supervised ANN based on the back-propagation scheme with three layers of neurons are studied, and the ANN architecture is adjusted. A model class consisting of a dipping dyke in the basement of a two-layer earth with the dyke in contact with the overburden is used for numerical experiments. Six macroparameters of the 3-D model, namely the thickness of the top layer, which coincides with the depth of the dyke (D), the conductivity ratio between the first and second layers (C1,/C2,), the conductivity contrast of the dyke (C/C2,), and the width (W ), length (L ) and dip angle of the dyke (A), are used. Various groups of magnetotelluric field components and their transformations are studied in order to estimate the effect of the data type used on the ANN recognition ability. It is found that use of only the xy - and yx -components of impedance phases results in reasonable recognition errors for all unknown parameters (D: 0.02 per cent, C1/C2: 8.4 per cent, C/C2: 26.8 per cent, W : 0.02 per cent, L : 0.02 per cent, A: 0.24 per cent). The influence of the size and shape of the training data pool (including the ,gaps in education' and ,no target' effects) on the recognition properties is studied. Results from numerous ANN tests demonstrate that the ANN possesses good enough interpolation and extrapolation abilities if the training data pool contains a sufficient number of representative data sets. The effect of noise is estimated by means of mixing the synthetic data with 30, 50 and 100 per cent Gaussian noise. The unusual behaviour of the recognition errors for some of the model parameters when the data become more noisy (in particular, the fact that an increase in error is followed by a decrease) indicates that the use of standard techniques of noise reduction may give an opposite result, so the development of a special noise treatment methodology is required. Thus, it is shown that ANN-based recognition can be successfully used for inversion if the data correspond to the model class familiar to the ANN. No initial guess regarding the parameters of the 3-D target or 1-D layering is required. The ability of the ANN to teach itself using real geophysical (not only electromagnetic) data measured at a given location over a sufficiently long period means that there is the potential to use this approach for interpreting monitoring data. [source]


    Identification and adaptive control of some stochastic distributed parameter systems

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, Issue 6 2001
    B. Pasik-Duncan
    Abstract An important class of controlled linear stochastic distributed parameter systems is that with boundary or point control. A survey of some existing adaptive control problems with their solutions for the boundary or the point control of a partially known linear stochastic distributed parameter systems is presented. The distributed parameter system is described by an analytic semigroup with cylindrical white noise and a control that occurs only on the boundary or at discrete points. The unknown parameters in the model appear affinely in both the infinitesimal generator of the semigroup and the linear transformation of the control. The noise in the system is a cylindrical white Gaussian noise. Strong consistency is verified for a family of least-squares estimates of the unknown parameters. For a quadratic cost functional of the state and the control, the certainty equivalence control is self-optimizing, that is the family of average costs converges to the optimal ergodic cost. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    An efficient approach for computing non-Gaussian ARMA model coefficients using Pisarenko's method

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIRCUIT THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Issue 3 2005
    Adnan Al-Smadi
    Abstract This paper addresses the problem of estimating the coefficients of a general autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model from only third order cumulants (TOCs) of the noisy observations of the system output. The observed signal may be corrupted by additive coloured Gaussian noise. The system is driven by a zero-mean independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) non-Gaussian sequence. The input is not observed. The unknown model coefficients are obtained using eigenvalue,eigenvector decomposition. The derivation of this procedure is an extension of Pisarenko harmonic autocorrelation-based (PHA) method to third order statistics. It will be shown that the desired ARMA coefficients vector corresponds to the eigenvector associated with the minimum eigenvalue of a data covariance matrix of TOCs. The proposed method is also compared with well-known algorithms as well as with the PHA method. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Adaptive least mean squares block Volterra filters

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIRCUIT THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Issue 4 2001
    Tarek I. Haweel
    Abstract Adaptive filtering has found many applications in situations where the underlying signals are changing or unknown. While linear filters are simple from implementation and conceptual points of view, many signals are non-linear in nature. Non-linear filters based on truncated Volterra expansions can effectively model a large number of systems. Unfortunately, the resulting input auto-moment matrix is ill conditioned, which results in a slow convergence rate. This paper proposes a class of block adaptive Volterra filters in which the input sequences are Hadamard transformed to improve the condition number of the input auto-moment matrix and consequently improve the convergence rate. This is achieved by the decorrelation effect produced by the orthogonality of the transform. Since Hadamard transformation employs only ±1's, the additional required computational and implementation burdens are few. The effect of additive white Gaussian noise is introduced. Simulation experiments are given to illustrate the improved performance of the proposed method over the conventional Volterra LMS method. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Performance of robust symbol-timing and carrier-frequency estimation for OFDM systems

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 5 2009
    Nan-Yang YenArticle first published online: 7 NOV 200
    Abstract In recent years, many maximum likelihood (ML) blind estimators have been proposed to estimate timing and frequency offsets for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. However, the previously proposed ML blind estimators utilizing cyclic prefix do not fully characterize the random observation vector over the entire range of the timing offset and will significantly degrade the estimation performance. In this paper, we present a global ML blind estimator to compensate the estimation error. Moreover, we extend the global ML blind estimator by accumulating the ML function of the estimation parameters to achieve a better accuracy without increasing the hardware or computational complexity. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve the estimation performance in both additional white Gaussian noise and ITU-R M.1225 multipath channels. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Comparison of coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and multicarrier code division multiple access systems for power line communications

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 9 2004
    P. L. Katsis
    Abstract Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems are comparatively evaluated for power line communications (PLC) in a frequency-selective fading environment with additive coloured Gaussian noise which is used to model the actual in-home power line channel. OFDM serves as a benchmark in order to measure the performance of various MC-CDMA systems, since multicarrier modulation systems are considered the best candidate for this kind of channel. Both single-user and multi-user cases are taken into account, making use of the appropriate combiner schemes to take full advantage of each case. System efficiency is enhanced by the application of different coding techniques, a fact which shows that powerful coding can make the difference under such a hostile medium. The impact of block interleaving is investigated, while the simulation examines how different modulation schemes fair under the imposed channel conditions as well. The performance of the system is assessed by the commonly used bit error rate vs signal-to-noise ratio diagrams and there is also a comparison regarding throughput efficiency among all the tested systems. As stated in Section 4, a promising PLC application is attained. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Adaptive predistortion of COFDM signals for a mobile satellite channel

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 2 2003
    Nibaldo Rodriguez
    Abstract In this paper, we consider the optimization of the performance of QPSK and 16-QAM coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM) signals over the non-linear and mobile satellite channel. A high power amplifier and Rician flat fading channel produces non-linear and linear distortions; an adaptive predistortion technique combined with turbo codes will reduce both types of distortion. The predistorter is based on a feedforward neural network, with the coefficients being derived using an extended Kalman filter (EKF). The conventional turbo code is used to mitigate Rician flat fading distortion and Gaussian noise. The performance over a non-linear satellite channel indicates that QPSK COFDM followed by a predistorter provides a gain of about 1.7 dB at a BER of 3×10,3 when compared to QPSK COFDM without the predistortion scheme and 16-QAM COFDM provides a gain of 0.5 dB output back-off and 1.2 dB signal to noise ratio at a BER of 3×10,5 when compared with an adaptive predistorter based on the Harmmerstein model. We also investigate the influence of the guard time interval and Doppler frequency effect on the BER performance. When the guard interval increases from 0 to 0.125T samples and the normalized Doppler frequency is 0.001, there is a gain of 0.7 and 1 dB signal to noise ratio at a BER of 6×10,4 for QPSK and 16-QAM COFDM, respectively. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Bandwidth-efficient turbo coding over Rayleigh fading channels

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 7 2002
    Stéphane Y. Le Goff
    Abstract Introduced in 1993, turbo codes can achieve high coding gains close to the Shannon limit. In order to design power and bandwidth-efficient coding schemes, several approaches have been introduced to combine high coding rate turbo codes with multilevel modulations. The coding systems thus obtained have been shown to display near-capacity performance over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. For communications over fading channels requiring large coding gain and high bandwidth efficiency, it is also interesting to study bit error rate (BER) performance of turbo codes combined with high order rectangular QAM modulations. To this end, we investigate, in this paper, error performance of several bandwidth-efficient schemes designed using the bit-interleaved coded modulation approach that has proven potentially very attractive when powerful codes, such as turbo codes, are employed. The structure of these coding schemes, termed ,bit-interleaved turbo-coded modulations' (BITCMs), is presented in a detailed manner and their BER performance is investigated for spectral efficiencies ranging from 2 to 7 bit/s/Hz. Computer simulation results indicate that BITCMs can achieve near-capacity performance over Rayleigh fading channels, for all spectral efficiencies considered throughout the paper. It is also shown that the combination of turbo coding and rectangular QAM modulation with Gray mapping constitutes inherently a very powerful association, since coding and modulation functions are both optimized for operation in the same signal-to-noise ratio region. This means that no BER improvement is obtainable by employing any other signal constellation in place of the rectangular ones. Finally, the actual influence of the interleaving and mapping functions on error performance of BITCM schemes is discussed. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Hybrid ARQ schemes for DS spread spectrum systems in the presence of narrow-band interference

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 4 2002
    Abdulhameed M. Al-Sanie
    Abstract This paper is concerned with a direct sequence spread spectrum system making use of automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes and operating in the presence of narrow-band (NB) interference and additive white Gaussian noise. In this study, we evaluate the system's throughput efficiency when a suppression filter is employed at the receiver to mitigate the effect of NB interference. Specifically, we investigate how the performance is influenced by various parameters such as the number of filter taps, processing gain, type of interference, and the signal power-to-interference power ratio. The simulation results show that using the suppression filter significantly improves the throughput performance of the hybrid ARQ schemes in the presence of NB interference. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Image reconstruction of buried inhomogeneous dielectric cylinders coated on a conductor

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMAGING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 3 2005
    Chun Jen Lin
    Abstract The image reconstruction of buried inhomogeneous dielectric cylinders coated on a conductor with known cross-section is investigated. Inhomogeneous dielectric cylinders coated on a conductor is buried in one half space and scatter a group of unrelated waves incident from another half space, where the scattered field is recorded. By proper arrangement of the various unrelated incident fields, the difficulties of ill-posedness and nonlinearity are circumvented, and the permittivity distribution can be reconstructed through simple matrix operations. The algorithm is based on the moment method and the unrelated illumination method. Numerical results show that good reconstruction has been obtained both with and without Gaussian noise in measured data. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 15, 172,177, 2005 [source]


    Design, implementation and verification through a real-time test-bed of a multi-rate CDMA adaptive interference mitigation receiver for satellite communication

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, Issue 1 2003
    Luca Fanucci
    Abstract This paper presents the design, the implementation, and the main performance results of a multi-rate code division multiple access (CDMA) interference mitigation receiver for satellite communication. Such activity was performed within a research project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), whose aim was to demonstrate the suitability of the linear adaptive interference mitigation detector (IMD) named extended complex-valued blind anchored interference-mitigating detector (EC-BAID) for single-user detection of a CDMA signal in third-generation (3G) satellite networks. Such a detector, which exhibits a remarkable robustness to multiple access interference, operates in a blind mode, i.e. it only requires knowledge of the timing of the wanted user's signature code, and is therefore very well suited for integration into handheld user terminals. Experimental results in terms of bit error rate with respect to the theoretical behaviour were derived through a specifically developed test bed. Signal plus multiple access interference generation is performed via a computer-controlled arbitrary waveform generator, followed by frequency up-conversion to the standard intermediate frequency of 70 MHz. Additive white Gaussian noise is then injected with the aid of a precision noise generator. The core of the test bed is a flexible digital receiver prototype featuring the EC-BAID detector plus all functions ancillary to IMD (multi-rate front-end, automatic gain control, code acquisition and tracking, carrier synchronization, etc.). Those functions were implemented through careful mixing of different technologies: field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for computing-intensive signal processing functions, digital signal processor (DSP) for housekeeping and monitoring, and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for adaptive IMD. The adopted design flow also allows an easy re-use of the prototype architecture to come to an overall integration of the receiver into a single ASIC with modest complexity and power consumption increase with respect to a conventional detector. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Wave functions derived from experiment.

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 4 2003

    Abstract The constrained Hartree,Fock method using experimental X-ray diffraction data is extended and applied to the case of noncentrosymmetric molecular crystals. A new way to estimate the errors in derived properties as a derivative with respect to added Gaussian noise is also described. Three molecular crystals are examined: ammonia [NH3], urea [CO(NH2)2], and alloxan [(CO)4(NH)2]. The energetic and electrical properties of these molecules in the crystalline state are presented. In all cases, an enhancement of the dipole moment is observed upon application of the experimental constraint. It is found that the phases of the structure factors are robustly determined by the constrained Hartree,Fock model, even in the presence of simulated noise. Plots of the electron density, electrostatic potential, and the electron localization function for the molecules in the crystal are displayed. In general, relative to the Hartree,Fock model, there is a depletion of charge around hydrogen atoms and lone pair regions, and a build-up of charge within the molecular framework near nuclei, directed along the bonds. The electron localization function plots reveal an increase in the pair density between vicinal hydrogen atoms. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 24: 470,483, 2003 [source]


    Comparison of TCA and ICA techniques in fMRI data processing

    JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, Issue 4 2004
    Xia Zhao MS
    Abstract Purpose To make a quantitative comparison of temporal cluster analysis (TCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) techniques in detecting brain activation by using simulated data and in vivo event-related functional MRI (fMRI) experiments. Materials and Methods A single-slice MRI image was replicated 150 times to simulate an fMRI time series. An event-related brain activation pattern with five different levels of intensity and Gaussian noise was superimposed on these images. Maximum contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the signal change ranged from 1.0 to 2.0 by 0.25 increments. In vivo visual stimulation fMRI experiments were performed on a 1.9 T magnet. Six human volunteers participated in this study. All imaging data were analyzed using both TCA and ICA methods. Results Both simulated and in vivo data have shown that no statistically significant difference exists in the activation areas detected by both ICA and TCA techniques when CNR of fMRI signal is larger than 1.75. Conclusion TCA and ICA techniques are comparable in generating functional brain maps in event-related fMRI experiments. Although ICA has richer features in exploring the spatial and temporal information of the functional images, the TCA method has advantages in its computational efficiency, repeatability, and readiness to average data from group subjects. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2004;19:397,402. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


    Simulating a class of stationary Gaussian processes using the Davies,Harte algorithm, with application to long memory processes

    JOURNAL OF TIME SERIES ANALYSIS, Issue 5 2003
    PETER F. CRAIGMILE
    We demonstrate that the fast and exact Davies,Harte algorithm is valid for simulating a certain class of stationary Gaussian processes , those with a negative autocovariance sequence for all non-zero lags. The result applies to well known classes of long memory processes: Gaussian fractionally differenced (FD) processes, fractional Gaussian noise (fGn) and the nonstationary fractional Brownian Motion (fBm). [source]


    Performance of nonlinear smoothers in signal recovery

    APPLIED STOCHASTIC MODELS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, Issue 4 2009
    W. J. Conradie
    Abstract Time series data can be decomposed as signal plus noise. A good smoother should be able to recover a smooth signal reasonably well from time series data. The performance of two classes of nonlinear smoothers in signal recovery is discussed in this paper. The first class is the well-known class of median smoothers. The other one is a relatively new class of smoothers based on extreme-order statistics, called lower-upper-lower-upper smoothers. Sinusoidal signals of different frequencies with contaminated normal noise and impulsive noise added were simulated. Members of the two classes of nonlinear smoothers were applied to remove the ,non-Gaussian' and impulsive noise. To this output linear smoothing was applied to remove the remaining Gaussian noise. By means of a simulation study, the success of the two classes of smoothers was investigated using as measures of success the least-squares regression of the smoothed sequence on the signal and the integrated mean square error. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]