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Performance of Statistical Tests for Single Source Detection using Random Matrix Theory
This paper introduces a unified framework for the detection of a source with
a sensor array in the context where the noise variance and the channel between
the source and the sensors are unknown at the receiver. The Generalized Maximum
Likelihood Test is studied and yields the analysis of the ratio between the
maximum eigenvalue of the sampled covariance matrix and its normalized trace.
Using recent results of random matrix theory, a practical way to evaluate the
threshold and the -value of the test is provided in the asymptotic regime
where the number of sensors and the number of observations per sensor
are large but have the same order of magnitude. The theoretical performance of
the test is then analyzed in terms of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC)
curve. It is in particular proved that both Type I and Type II error
probabilities converge to zero exponentially as the dimensions increase at the
same rate, and closed-form expressions are provided for the error exponents.
These theoretical results rely on a precise description of the large deviations
of the largest eigenvalue of spiked random matrix models, and establish that
the presented test asymptotically outperforms the popular test based on the
condition number of the sampled covariance matrix.Comment: 45 p. improved presentation; more proofs provide
Distributed Detection over Fading MACs with Multiple Antennas at the Fusion Center
A distributed detection problem over fading Gaussian multiple-access channels
is considered. Sensors observe a phenomenon and transmit their observations to
a fusion center using the amplify and forward scheme. The fusion center has
multiple antennas with different channel models considered between the sensors
and the fusion center, and different cases of channel state information are
assumed at the sensors. The performance is evaluated in terms of the error
exponent for each of these cases, where the effect of multiple antennas at the
fusion center is studied. It is shown that for zero-mean channels between the
sensors and the fusion center when there is no channel information at the
sensors, arbitrarily large gains in the error exponent can be obtained with
sufficient increase in the number of antennas at the fusion center. In stark
contrast, when there is channel information at the sensors, the gain in error
exponent due to having multiple antennas at the fusion center is shown to be no
more than a factor of (8/pi) for Rayleigh fading channels between the sensors
and the fusion center, independent of the number of antennas at the fusion
center, or correlation among noise samples across sensors. Scaling laws for
such gains are also provided when both sensors and antennas are increased
simultaneously. Simple practical schemes and a numerical method using
semidefinite relaxation techniques are presented that utilize the limited
possible gains available. Simulations are used to establish the accuracy of the
results.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processin
Changepoint Detection over Graphs with the Spectral Scan Statistic
We consider the change-point detection problem of deciding, based on noisy
measurements, whether an unknown signal over a given graph is constant or is
instead piecewise constant over two connected induced subgraphs of relatively
low cut size. We analyze the corresponding generalized likelihood ratio (GLR)
statistics and relate it to the problem of finding a sparsest cut in a graph.
We develop a tractable relaxation of the GLR statistic based on the
combinatorial Laplacian of the graph, which we call the spectral scan
statistic, and analyze its properties. We show how its performance as a testing
procedure depends directly on the spectrum of the graph, and use this result to
explicitly derive its asymptotic properties on few significant graph
topologies. Finally, we demonstrate both theoretically and by simulations that
the spectral scan statistic can outperform naive testing procedures based on
edge thresholding and testing
SNR-Walls in Eigenvalue-based Spectrum Sensing
Various spectrum sensing approaches have been shown to suffer from a
so-called SNR-wall, an SNR value below which a detector cannot perform robustly
no matter how many observations are used. Up to now, the eigenvalue-based
maximum-minimum-eigenvalue (MME) detector has been a notable exception. For
instance, the model uncertainty of imperfect knowledge of the receiver noise
power, which is known to be responsible for the energy detector's fundamental
limits, does not adversely affect the MME detector's performance. While
additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is a standard assumption in wireless
communications, it is not a reasonable one for the MME detector. In fact, in
this work we prove that uncertainty in the amount of noise coloring does lead
to an SNR-wall for the MME detector. We derive a lower bound on this SNR-wall
and evaluate it for example scenarios. The findings are supported by numerical
simulations.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures, submitted to EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networkin
Finite sample performance of linear least squares estimators under sub-Gaussian martingale difference noise
Linear Least Squares is a very well known technique for parameter estimation,
which is used even when sub-optimal, because of its very low computational
requirements and the fact that exact knowledge of the noise statistics is not
required. Surprisingly, bounding the probability of large errors with finitely
many samples has been left open, especially when dealing with correlated noise
with unknown covariance. In this paper we analyze the finite sample performance
of the linear least squares estimator under sub-Gaussian martingale difference
noise. In order to analyze this important question we used concentration of
measure bounds. When applying these bounds we obtained tight bounds on the tail
of the estimator's distribution. We show the fast exponential convergence of
the number of samples required to ensure a given accuracy with high
probability. We provide probability tail bounds on the estimation error's norm.
Our analysis method is simple and uses simple type bounds on the
estimation error. The tightness of the bounds is tested through simulation. The
proposed bounds make it possible to predict the number of samples required for
least squares estimation even when least squares is sub-optimal and used for
computational simplicity. The finite sample analysis of least squares models
with this general noise model is novel
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