Title :
Can detectability be improved by adding noise?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rhode Island Univ., Kingston, RI, USA
Abstract :
It is shown that under certain conditions the performance of a suboptimal detector may be improved by adding noise to the received data. The reasons for this counterintuitive result are explained and a computer simulation example given.
Keywords :
Gaussian noise; signal detection; white noise; computer simulation; signal detection; suboptimal detector; white Gaussian noise; Computer simulation; Detectors; Gaussian noise; Light rail systems; Noise level; Probability density function; Signal detection; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Testing;
Journal_Title :
Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
