A robust timing and frequency synchronization for OFDM systems

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 822-839

  Minn, Hlaing ^a   Bhargava, Vijay K ^b   Letaief, Khaled Ben ^c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Frequency offset estimation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Symbol timing estimation; Synchronization; Training symbol

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH FADING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY-OFFSET ESTIMATION; SINGLE-CARRIER-TYPE TRAINING; SYMBOL-TIMING ESTIMATION; TRAINING SYMBOL;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 3042758032     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.814346     Document Type: Article

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