Multiantenna Assisted Source Detection in Toeplitz Noise Covariance

This letter addresses the problem of signal detection in additive correlated noise whose covariance matrix is Toeplitz. Particularly, we design a novel detection approach in the framework of generalized likelihood ratio test, in which the maximum likelihood (ML) estimate of the Toeplitz covariance matrix is needed. Since there are no closed-form expressions for this ML estimate, we resort to the inverse iterative algorithm. The proposed detector surpasses existing methods in detection power and enjoys the constant false-alarm rate property. Besides, accurate asymptotic null and non-null distributions of the test statistic are derived. Numerical results are presented to validate our theoretical findings.