Enhancing the Reliability of Spectral Correlation Function with Distributed Computing

Various random time series used in signal processing systems are cyclostationary due to the sinusoidal carriers, pulse trains, periodic motion, or physical phenomenon. The cyclostationarity of the signal could be analysed by using the spectral correlation function (SCF). However, SCF is considered high complex due to the 2-D functionality and the required long observation time. The SCF could be computed in various methods however there are two methods used in practice such as FFT accumulation method (FAM) and strip spectral correlation algorithm (SSCA). This paper shows the benefit on the complexity and the reliability due to the workload distribution of one processor over different cooperated processors. The paper found that with increasing the reliability of the SCF, the number of the cooperated processors to achieve the half of the maximum complexity will reduce.