Optimal insertion of pilot symbols for transmissions over time-varying flat fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1403-1418

  Dong, Min ^a   Tong, Lang ^a   Sadler, Brian M ^b  

^a School of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel tracking; Gauss Markov; Kalman filter; Pilot symbols; Placement schemes; PSAM; Superimposed; Time varying

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); KALMAN FILTERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; CHANNEL TRACKING; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TIME-VARYING FLAT FADING CHANNEL;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 2442606512     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.826182     Document Type: Article

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