Maximum-likelihood symbol synchronization for IEEE 802.11a WLANs in unknown frequency-selective fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2751-2762

  Wu, Yik Chung ^b   Yip, Kun Wah ^a,c   Ng, Tung Sang ^a,d   Serpedin, Erchin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Frequency selective; IEEE 802.11a wireless local area network (WLAN); Maximum likelihood (ML); Multipath fading channel; Symbol synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; MULTIPATH FADING CHANNELS; SYMBOL SYNCHRONIZATION;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 29144533926     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.858008     Document Type: Article

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