In this appendix the false-alarm rate is evaluated for a sampled range-bin receiver and a receiver that employs a continuous threshold comparison, assuming input narrowband stationary Gaussian noise. In the latter type of receiver a false alarm occurs when envelope V(t) of the narrowband noise process crosses threshold V* from below (positive slope).

Inspec keywords: integral equations; radio receivers; Gaussian noise; probability

Other keywords: continuous threshold comparison; narrowband noise process; mean false-alarm rate; input narrowband stationary Gaussian noise; sampled range-bin receiver; derivative; joint probability density function

Subjects: Integral equations (numerical analysis); Radio links and equipment; Other topics in statistics