• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.298-305
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose simple combining schemes for sensing ATSC digital television signals with spectral correlation density (SCD). The detection algorithms exploiting the cyclostationarity exhibited by the pilot of ATSC digital television signals usually use the SCD value at a given particular frequency. However, we found that non-zero SCDs are found to be distributed over a certain range of frequencies in multipath fading environment. To utilize a set of non-zero SCD values computed in the vicinity of the pilot location, we formulate a class of combining methods in analogy with the maximal ratio combining, the square law combining and the equal gain combining. We show that the proposed simple combining schemes improve the detection performance by 0.5~1.0dB under multipath fading environments.