METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING PRESENCE OF A CARRIER IN A RECEIVED SIGNAL

摘要

A device receives a signal and, prior to demodulating the signal determines whether carrier is present in the received signal based on the correlation depth of the received signal. The device determines (210) a plurality of values for the received signal that indicate the amount of correlation in the received signal and detects the presence of the carrier in the received signal as a function of the plurality of values. The plurality of values can include autocorrelation values and prediction coefficients, wherein the autocorrelation values are estimated based on an autocorrelation function derived for the received signal, and the prediction coefficients are generated using a prediction model that is derived as a function of the autocorrelation values. The prediction coefficients can be summed to generate (224) a decision statistic that is compared (228) to a detection threshold to detect the presence of the carrier.