Maximum-likelihood Detection of Impulsive Noise Support for Channel Parameter Estimation

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating channel parameters in the presence of impulsive noise (IN). To that end, two novel maximum-likelihood based IN support detection techniques are proposed for the cases where the IN is modeled to be a deterministic quantity or a random one. For the deterministic case, an exact closed-form expression for the distribution of the joint likelihood statistic is provided whereas, in the random case,...