Properties of the mean acquisition time for wide-bandwidth signals in dense multipath channels

Watacharapan Suwansantisuk; Moe Z. Win; Lawrence A. Shepp

doi:10.1117/12.612598

23 May 2005 Properties of the mean acquisition time for wide-bandwidth signals in dense multipath channels (Keynote Address)

Watacharapan Suwansantisuk, Moe Z. Win, Lawrence A. Shepp

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Proceedings Volume 5847, Noise in Communication Systems; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.612598
Event: SPIE Third International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2005, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

This paper investigates important properties of acquisition receivers that employ commonly used serial-search strategies. In particular, we focus on the properties of the mean acquisition time (MAT) for wide bandwidth signals in dense multipath channels. We show that a lower bound on the MAT over all possible search strategies is the solution to an integer programming problem with a convex objective function. We also give an upper bound expression for the MAT over all possible search strategies. We demonstrate that the MAT of the fixed-step serial search (FSSS) does not depend on the location of the first resolvable path within the uncertainty region, thereby simplifying the evaluation of the MAT of the FSSS. The results in this paper can be applied to the design and analysis of fast acquisition systems in various wideband scenarios.

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Watacharapan Suwansantisuk, Moe Z. Win, and Lawrence A. Shepp "Properties of the mean acquisition time for wide-bandwidth signals in dense multipath channels (Keynote Address)", Proc. SPIE 5847, Noise in Communication Systems, (23 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.612598

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