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Estimation of MIMO transmit-antenna number using higher-order moments based hypothesis testing
This letter proposes a higher-order-moment based
hypothesis testing algorithm to estimate the transmit-antenna
number for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems.
Exploiting the asymptotic normal distribution of the moments
composed by noise eigenvalues, the proposed algorithm improves
the estimation performance for low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs).
Moreover, since the empirical distribution of the moments converges
quickly to the normal distribution when the number of
samples increases, our algorithm can make a reliable estimation
in a sample starved condition. Computer simulations are provided
to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the
conventional algorithms