Highly efficient techniques for mitigating the effects of multipath propagation in DS-CDMA delay estimation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-162

  Lohan, Elena Simona ^a   Hamila, Ridha ^b   Lakhzouri, Abdelmonaem ^a   Renfors, Markku ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Closely spaced multipaths; Code synchronization; Direct sequence code division multiple access (DS CDMA); Line of sight (LOS) estimation; Mobile phone positioning; Multi path delay estimation; Wideband CDMA (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; DIRECT SEQUENCE SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CLOSELY-SPACED MULTIPATHS; CODE SYNCHRONIZATION; DIRECT-SEQUENCE CODE-DIVISION MULTIPLE-ACCESS (DS-CDMA); LINE-OF-SIGHT (LOS) ESTIMATION; MOBILE PHONE POSITIONING; MULTIPATH DELAY ESTIMATION; WIDEBAND CDMA (WCDMA);

MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

EID: 19944417944     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.840231     Document Type: Article

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