Detection and Estimation for Communication and Radar Systems

Kung Yao is a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his BS (Highest Honors) and PhD from Princeton University. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, he has worked for or consulted for several leading companies, including AT&T Bell Laboratories, TRW, Hughes Aircraft Company and Raytheon. Flavio Lorenzelli received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and for several years was with ST Microelectronics. The recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in 1989, he has been an engineer at The Aerospace Corporation since 2007 and is a Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. Chiao-En Chen is an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Communications Engineering at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008.

1. Introduction and motivation to detection and estimation; 2. Review of probability and random processes; 3. Statistical hypothesis testing theory; 4. Detection of deterministic binary signals in Gaussian noises; 5. M-ary detection and classification of deterministic signals; 6. Non-coherent detection; 7. Parameter estimation; 8. Analytical and simulation methods for system performance analysis and design.