Abstract
Threshold effects in the estimation of parameters of nonlinearly modulated, continuous-time, wide-band waveforms, are examined from a statistical physics perspective. These threshold effects are shown to be analogous to phase transitions of certain disordered physical systems in thermal equilibrium. The main message, in this work, is in demonstrating that this physical point of view may be insightful for understanding the interactions between two or more parameters to be estimated, from the aspects of the threshold effect.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 6034730 |
| Pages (from-to) | 7000-7010 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2011 |
Keywords
- Additive white Gaussian noise channel
- bandwidth
- disordered systems
- nonlinear modulation
- parameter estimation
- phase transitions
- random energy model
- statistical physics
- threshold effect
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
- Library and Information Sciences