Is blind channel estimation feasible in mobile communication systems? A study based on GSM

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1479-1491

  Boss, Dieter ^a,b,c,d,e   Kammeyer, Karl Dirk ^a   Petermann, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c Ecl Sup d'Ing Electrotechnique E   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH ^*

Author keywords

Equalizers; Estimation; Fading channels; Higher order statistics (HOS); Land mobile radio cellular systems; Time division multiple access (TDMA)

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; EQUALIZERS; FADING (RADIO); SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

EID: 0032183675     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.730455     Document Type: Article

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