Prof. Blum's Publications

Some Publications:

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Optimum distributed detection of weak signals in dependent sensors,'' SPIE's Milestone Papers on Sensor and Data Fusion, 1996, pp. 172-185.

R. S. Blum, S. A. Kassam, and H. V. Poor, ``Distributed detection with multiple sensors: part II - advanced topics,'' Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 64-79, Jan. 1997.

R. S. Blum and M. C. Jeruchim, ``A note on windowing in the simulation of continuous-time communication systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Aug. 1997.

R. S. Blum, ``Locally optimum distributed detection of correlated random signals based on ranks,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-42, pp. 931-942, May 1996.

R. S. Blum, ``Necessary conditions for optimum distributed sensor detectors under the Neyman-Pearson criterion,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-42, pp. 990-994, May 1996.

R. S. Blum and J. Qiao, ``Threshold optimization for distributed order-statistic CFAR signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, pp. 568-577, Jan. 1996.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Optimum distributed CFAR detection of weak signals,'' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 221-229, July 1995.

R. S. Blum, ``Distributed detection of narrowband signals,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 519-522, IT-40, March 1995.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Distributed cell-averaging CFAR detection in dependent sensors,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-40, pp. 513-518, March 1995.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``On the asymptotic relative efficiency of distributed detection schemes,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-40, pp. 523-527, March 1995.

R. S. Blum, ``Quantization in multisensor random signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-41, pp. 204-215, Jan. 1995.

R. S. Blum, ``Asymptotically robust detection for known signals in non-additive noise,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-40, pp. 1612-1619, Sept. 1994.

R. S. Blum, ``Asymptotically robust detection for known signals in contaminated multiplicative noise,'' Signal Processing, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 197-210, 1994.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Optimum distributed detection of weak signals in dependent sensors,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-38, pp. 1066-1079, May 1992.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Asymptotically optimum quantization with time invariant breakpoints for signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-37, pp. 402-407, March 1991.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Approximate analysis of the convergence of relative efficiency to ARE for known signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-37, pp. 199-206, Jan. 1991.

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CONFERENCE PAPERS

R. S. Blum, R. J. Kozick, and B. M. Sadler, ``An adaptive spatial diversity receiver for non-Gaussian interference and noise,'' IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP On Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication, Paris, France, April 1997.

Z. Gu, R. S. Blum, W. L. Melvin, and M. C. Wicks, ``Performance comparison of STAP algorithms for airborne radar,'' 1997 IEEE National Radar Conference, Syracuse, NY, May 1997.

R. S. Blum, ``Optimum multiple antenna quantization for reception of fading signals in noise,'' 8th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Corfu, Greece, July 1996.

R. S. Blum, W. L. Melvin, and M. C. Wicks, ``An analysis of the adaptive displaced phase centered antenna space-time processing algorithm,'' 1996 Radar Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

R. S. Blum, ``Quantization for distributed reception of fading signals in noise,'' 29th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., March 1996.

M. C. Deans and R. S. Blum, ``Distributed signal detection system design using adaptive signal processing techniques,'' 29th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., March 1996.

P. Swaszek, P. K. Willett, and R. S. Blum, ``Distributed detection of dependent data -- the two sensor problem,'' 29th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., March 1996.

R. S. Blum, ``Distributed reception of fading signals in noise,'' Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 214, Whistler, Canada, Sept. 1995.

H. K. Mecklai and R. S. Blum, ``Transmit antenna diversity for wireless communications,'' Proceedings of the 1995 International Communications Conference, Seattle, WA, pp. 1500-1504, June 18-22, 1995.

R. S. Blum, ``Fusing quantized observations in multisensor random signal detection,'' Invited paper, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, pp. 1703-1707, June 21-23, 1995.

R. S. Blum, ``Distributed reception of fading signals in noise,'' Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, pp. 490-495, MD, March 1995.

N. M. Muthuswamy and R. S. Blum, ``Detection of random signals with neural networks,'' Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, pp. 330-335, March 1995.

N. M. Muthuswamy and R. S. Blum, ``Neural detectors for medical signal processing,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, New Delhi, India, pp. 4.31-4.32, Feb. 1995.

R. S. Blum, ``A simple model for fractional non-Gaussian processes,'' Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time-frequency and Time-scale Analysis, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 444-447, Oct. 1994.

R. S. Blum, ``Necessary conditions for optimum distributed sensor detectors under the Neyman-Pearson criterion,'' Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 254, June 1994.

R. S. Blum, ``Locally optimum distributed detection of dependent random signals based on ranks,'' Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 253, June 1994.

R. S. Blum, J. A. Adkins, and M. C. Jeruchim, ``Improved methods for using FIR filters in simulating communication links,'' Proceedings of the fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks, Princeton, New Jersey, Session 3, paper 3, April 1994.

X. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ``Distributed quantization for signal detection in dependent sensors,'' Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 726-731, March 1994.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Distributed detection of dependent sensor returns~:~a narrowband random signal example'' Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 720-725, March 1994.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``On the asymptotic relative efficiency of distributed detection schemes,'' Proceedings of the 27th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 223-227, Nov. 1-3, 1993.

R. S. Blum, ``Distributed detection of weak dependent narrowband signals,'' Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Minneapolis, MN, vol. IV, pp. 77-80, April 1993.

J. Qiao and R. S. Blum, ``Distributed OS-CFAR detection of dependent returns,'' Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, pp. 296-301, March 1993.

X. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ``On the relationship between two design criteria for distributed quantization schemes for signal detection,'' Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, p. 688, March 1993.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Distributed cell-averaging CFAR detection of dependent signal returns,'' Proceedings of 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX, p. 12, Jan. 1993.

R. S. Blum, ``Optimum quantization in single and multisensor random signal detection,'' Proceedings of the 13th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, University of Illinois, Allerton Conference Center, IL, pp. 289-298, Oct. 1992 (Also chairman of a different session).

R. S. Blum, ``Asymptotically robust detection for known signals in contaminated non-additive noise,'' Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 972-977, March 1992.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``Optimum distributed detection of weak signal in dependent sensors,'' Proceedings of Twenty-Fourth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1990.

R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``A general result for locally optimum quantization with time invariant breakpoints,'' Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 1990.

R. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ``The use of the ARE in finite sample size detector performance prediction,'' Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Diego, CA, pp. 134, Jan. 1990.

R. Blum and M. C. Jeruchim, ``Modeling nonlinear amplifiers for communication simulation,'' Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Boston, MA, pp. 1468-1472, June 11-14, 1989.

R. Blum and T. Klandrud, ``A communication system simulation language translator,'' Proceedings of 1987 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada, pp. 308-313, July 27-30, 1987.