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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2017.42.3.639

Weighted Energy Detector for Detecting Uunknown Threat Signals in Electronic Warfare System in Weak Power Signal Environment  

Kim, Dong-Gyu (Pusan National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Kim, Yo-Han (Pusan National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Lee, Yu-Ri (Pusan National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Jang, Chungsu (Agency for Defense Development, The 2nd R&D Institute - 2nd Directorate - 1 Team)
Kim, Hyoung-Nam (Pusan National University Department of Electronics Engineering)
Abstract
Electronic warfare systems for extracting information of the threat signals can be employed under the circumstance where the power of the received signal is weak. To precisely and rapidly detect the threat signals, it is required to use methods exploiting whole energy of the received signals instead of conventional methods using a single received signal input. To utilize the whole energy, numerous sizes of windows need to be implemented in a detector for dealing with all possible unknown length of the received signal because it is assumed that there is no preliminary information of the uncooperative signals. However, this grid search method requires too large computational complexity to be practically implemented. In order to resolve this complexity problem, an approach that reduces the number of windows by selecting the smaller number of representative windows can be considered. However, each representative window in this approach needs to cover a certain amount of interval divided from the considering range. Consequently, the discordance between the length of the received signal and the window sizes results in degradation of the detection performance. Therefore, we propose the weighted energy detector which results in improved detection performance comparing with the conventional energy detector under circumstance where the window size is smaller than the length of the received signal. In addition, it is shown that the proposed method exhibits the same performance under other circumstances.
Keywords
Electronic warfare; Energy detection; Weak power environment;
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