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You can see a pre-publication version of my latest CSP journal paper, on “tunneling”, here.
Here are some highlights:
Cyclostationarity and Machine Learning
A challenge for the Machine Learners: carrier-frequency-offset estimation.
Data set for the Machine-Learner CFO challenge.
Review of ML modulation recognition paper by T. O’Shea.
Review of ML modulation recognition paper by M. Kulin.
Can a machine learn the Fourier transform? Part I. Part II.
How humans learned cyclostationary signal processing.
Analysis of the signals in the data sets used by some Machine Learners: O’Shea RML 2016a, O’Shea RML 2016b, O’Shea 2018, and O’Shea 2016c.
Machine learners’ peculiar terminology and disconnect from mathematics.
The Rants page, which has critical take-downs of mostly (but not all) machine-learning papers in the signal-processing and RF-communications domain.
What is Cyclostationarity?
Higher-order cyclostationarity.
Suggested posts, in order, for CSP beginners.
Can I Get Help with my CSP Work Through the CSP Blog?
General rules for getting help.
Second-order estimator development guide.
What is Higher-Order Cyclostationarity and What are Cyclic Cumulants?
Introduction to higher-order cyclostationarity.
Cyclic cumulants and cyclic moments.
Optional conjugations in higher-order parameters.
Symmetries in higher-order parameters.
How do You Estimate the Parameters of Second-Order Cyclostationarity?
The frequency-smoothing method for spectral correlation estimation, one cycle frequency at a time.
The time-smoothing method for spectral correlation estimation, one cycle frequency at a time.
Exhaustive efficient spectral correlation estimation, all cycle frequencies (SSCA).
Spectral coherence and blind estimation of significant cycle frequencies.
Exhaustive efficient spectral correlation estimation, all cycle frequencies (FAM).
Second-order estimator development guide.
Symmetries in second-order CSP parameters.
How do You Estimate the Parameters of Higher-Order Cyclostationarity?
Synchronized averaging and the cyclic-moment-to-cyclic-cumulant formula.
What are Some Applications of Cyclostationarity?
Noise- and interference-tolerant signal presence detection.
Noise- and interference-tolerant time-delay estimation.
Carrier and symbol synchronization.
What Estimator and Signal Parameters Affect CSP Performance?
Resolution in frequency, time, and cycle frequency.
Excess bandwidth in digital QAM/PSK.
Cyclostationarity of Modulated RF Waveforms
Digital QAM/PSK with square-root raised-cosine pulses.
A gallery of spectral correlation functions.
A gallery of cyclic autocorrelation functions.
Some Mathematical Aspects of CSP
Symmetries in second-order CSP parameters.
Symmetries in higher-order temporal CSP parameters.
Signal processing operations and CSP.
Ambiguity and cyclic correlation.
Conjugation configurations in higher-order moments and cumulants.
Stationary-signal models versus cyclostationary-signal models.
Hi Prof. Chad Spooner,
Do you have plans on writing about frequency-shift (FRESH) filters? Are those filters optimal for cyclostationary and almos cyclostationary signals? I am looking for the most recent publications and trying to learn about the state of the art on this topic.
Thanks!
Not yet! I’ve been working on FRESH filtering a bit lately, and I have a post in the works. But I can’t say exactly when it will be ready. You can see some recent work I did with Matt Carrick in My Papers [45-46].