True Cramer-Rao bound for timing recovery from a bandlimited linearly modulated waveform with unknown carrier phase and frequency

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 473-483

  Noels, Nele ^a   Wymeersch, Henk ^a   Steendam, Heidi ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carrier synchronization; Cramer Rao bound (CRB); Symbol synchronization; Timing estimation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; LINEARLY MODULATED WAVEFORM; SYMBOL SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING ESTIMATION; TIMING RECOVERY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 1842533299     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.823648     Document Type: Article

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