Synchronization algorithms for UWB signals

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 329-338

  Carbonelli, Cecilia ^a   Mengali, Umberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; Correlation receivers; Synchronization; Ultra wideband (UWB) communications

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COHERENT MATCHED FILTER DETECTION; CORRELATION RECEIVERS; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) COMMUNICATIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33644661138     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.863728     Document Type: Article

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