Question: The Next Generation Air Transportation System ( NextGen ) will transform America s air traffic control system. Unlike the current air traffic control system, which

The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) will transform Americas air traffic control system. Unlike the current air traffic control system, which is based on radar, 1 NextGen relies on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals to determine each aircrafts precise position in the sky. Aircraft then use Automatic Dependent Surveillancebroadcast (ADS-B) technology to periodically broadcast their location information to other aircraft and air traffic control towers in the vicinity. Suppose that an ADS-B transmitter broadcasts a binary signal x in {1,1} and that an ADS-B receiver receives the signal as Y = ax + N, where a >0 represents the strength of the received signal after propagating through space and N is additive noise, which is normally distributed with mean 0 and variance 2. For example, if the transmitter broadcasts the signal x =1 and a =0.1, then Y = ax + N =0.1+ N. Notice that the signal attenuation becomes larger as a decreases. At large attenuations (small values of a), the received signal eventually gets lost in the noise (i.e., the received signal will eventually become smaller than the noise N, which will make it harder for the receiver to correctly interpret it). The ADS-B receiver uses a likelihood ratio test to decode the received message based on the following binary hypothesis testing problem: H0: Y = a + N H1: Y =a + N Note that H0 is the hypothesis that the ADS-B transmitter broadcasted a 1(i.e., x =1) and H1 is the hypothesis that the ADS-B transmitter broadcasted a -1(i.e., x =1).(a) Determine the likelihood functions fY (y; H0) and fY (y; H1).(b) Construct the log-likelihood ratio test for general a, 2, and critical value .(c) Assume that you are designing an ADS-B transmitter. Determine the minimum value of a such that the false rejection and false acceptance probabilities at the receiver are less than or equal to 0.05. Assume noise variance 2=1/4 and critical value =1.

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