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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (8): 1498-1507.

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Period Estimation via Lattice Line Search with Adaptive Step-size Selection

YE Haohuan, LIU Zheng, JIANG Wenli   

  1. College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073,China
  • Received:2011-11-18 Revised:2012-01-11 Online:2012-08-25 Published:2012-08-23
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61002026)

Abstract: A lattice line search (LLS) algorithm is employed to estimate the period of a periodic point process when the observations are sparse and noisy. However, the algorithm involves a numerical search for the maximum of the likelihood function which is previously identified, and the chosen step-size affects estimation performance. This paper focuses on the issue of step-size determination, for which a formula is developed. By using that formula, the LLS algorithm is modified to be able to adaptively determine a suitable step-size from the observation data. Compared with the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), the modified algorithm can attain the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) at the same signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold, but its computational complexity is lower by more than one order. Performance analysis and simulations show that the proposed estimator can achieve a better tradeoff between estimation accuracy and computational complexity than do the existing estimators.

Key words: period estimation, periodic point process, lattice, step-size, pulse repetition interval

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