Maximum-Likelihood Frequency Recovery for OFDM Signals Transmitted Over Multipath Fading Channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 244-251

  Chiavaccini, Eugenio ^a,b   Vitetta, Giorgio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b IDS INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fading channels; Frequency synchronization; Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; Multicarrier modulation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNCHRONIZATION; VECTORS;

FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 1642363254     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822706     Document Type: Review

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