The Modified Cramer-Rao Bound and its Application to Synchronization Problems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 42, Issue 234, 1994, Pages 1391-1399

  D'Andrea, Aldo N ^a   Mengali, Umberto ^a   Reggiannini, Ruggero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET; CRAMER-RAO BOUND (CRB); TIMING EPOCH;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0028369824     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.1994.580247     Document Type: Article

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