Unbiased scattering function estimators for underspread channels and extension to data-driven operation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1387-1402

  Artés, Harold ^a   Matz, Gerald ^a   Hlawatsch, Franz ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Channel sounding; Doubly spread targets; Fading dispersive channels; Mobile radio channels; Scattering function estimation; Underspread channels; WSSUS channels

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CHANNEL SOUNDING; DOUBLY SPREAD TARGET; SCATTERING FUNCTION ESTIMATION; TIME-VARYING CHANNEL; UNDERSPREAD CHANNEL;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 2442703013     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.826181     Document Type: Article

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