Methods for measuring the impulse response of a linear transmission system and system identification algorithms in general must be robust against noise in the measured system response. To handle the noise it is of great advantage to know the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially in situations with changing noise conditions. In this paper we present a new approach for estimating the SNR during an impulse response measurement by means of the so-called sliding window correlation (SWiC) as introduced in this paper. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by means of simulation results.
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