Timing-Synchronization Analysis for IEEE 802.11a Wireless LANs in Frequency-Nonselective Rician Fading Environments

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 387-394

  Yip, Kun Wah ^a   Wu, Yik Chung ^a,b   Ng, Tung Sang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency nohselective channel; IEEE 802.11a; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Probability of synchronization failure; Rician fading; Sliding correlator; Timing synchronization; Wireless local area network (LAN)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY AGILITY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FREQUENCY-NONSELECTIVE CHANNELS; IEEE 802.11A; RICIAN FADING; SLIDING CORRELATOR; TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342457030     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.825372     Document Type: Review

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