Signal detection using watermark insertion

Abstract — This paper analyses signal detection using watermark insertion, which is artificially embedded into the digital modulated signal. When a signal does not contain intrinsic information, its detection is hard to achieve using blind detectors. For that kind of signals, we propose to insert a low-power watermark that will be detected by a matched filter based detector. The system design is a trade-off between the watermark insertion strength (i.e. reducing the transmission quality) and the detection sensitivity. This trade-off is discussed in this paper and simulations results show the advantage of the watermark insertion. I