Low-SNR limit of the Cramer-Rao bound for estimating the time delay of a PSK, QAM, or PAM waveform

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-33

  Steendam, Heidi ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

CRAMER-RAO BOUND; TIME DELAY;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0035082042     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4234.901818     Document Type: Article

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