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Threshold performance of MUSIC when using the forward-backward data matrix
Published in
2006
Volume: 13
   
Issue: 2
Pages: 80 - 83
Abstract
The multiple signal classification (MUSIC) frequency estimator is a suboptimal method for estimating the frequencies of multiple sinusoids buried in white noise and has a threshold of around 14 dB for the well-known two-sinusoid example (equal amplitudes f1 = 0.52, f2 = 0.5, φ1 = π/4, and φ2 = 0). We point out that this threshold value is the result of estimating the autocorrelation estimates using the forward data matrix alone. Instead, if the autocorrelation estimates are obtained from the forward-backward data matrix, the threshold is lowered to 4 dB (lower than Kumaresan-Tufts method's 7 dB and within 1 dB of maximum-likelihood estimator). We offer an explanation of why the threshold is lowered by examining the noiseless autocorrelation matrix based on the forward and forward-backward data matrices. Also, it is well known that the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is also a function of the relative phases. We point out that when φ1 = π/2, the estimates obtained using MUSIC become increasingly biased and cause the variance to fall below CRLB at 23 dB for the "forward-backward" root MUSIC and at 25 dB for "forward-only" root MUSIC. The use of the forward-backward data matrix in spectral estimation is not novel, but to our knowledge, the improvement in threshold for φ1 = π/4 has not been reported, nor the comparative performance as φ1 varies. © 2006 IEEE.
About the journal
JournalIEEE Signal Processing Letters
ISSN10709908
Open AccessNo
Concepts (11)
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    Computer simulation
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    Correlation theory
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    Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
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    Matrix algebra
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    Signal to noise ratio
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    White noise
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    Cramer-rao lower bound
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    DATA MATRIX
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    Frequency estimation
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    MULTIPLE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION (MUSIC)
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    Signal processing