Joint estimation of symbol timing and carrier frequency offset of OFDM signals over fast time-varying multipath channels

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4526-4535

  Lv, Tiejun ^a   Li, Hua ^b   Chen, Jie ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast time varying multipath channel; Least squares method; Maximum likelihood estimation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; VECTORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CARRIER FREQUENCY; FAST TIME VARYING MULTIPATH CHANNEL; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SYMBOL TIMING; WIRELESS ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 29144449300     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.859233     Document Type: Article

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