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Robustness in Signal Detection

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Communications and Networks

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Signal detection systems frequently must operate in environments that are difficult to characterize with precise statistical models, and thus it is of interest to develop signal detection procedures that are robust against (i.e., insensitive to) deviations in the statistical behavior of signals and noise. During the past two decades there has been considerable work on the problem of designing such procedures, and in this chapter we present a survey of some of the principal developments in this area.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    H. Vincent Poor

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Ian F. Blake

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    H. Vincent Poor

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Poor, H.V. (1986). Robustness in Signal Detection. In: Blake, I.F., Poor, H.V. (eds) Communications and Networks. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4904-7_7

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