Unified analysis of a class of blind feedforward symbol timing estimators employing second-order statistics

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 737-742

  Wu, Yik Chung ^a   Serpedin, Erchin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Cramer Rao bound; Feedforward; Performance; Synchronization; Timing recovery

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONDITIONAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (CML) ESTIMATOR; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; FEEDFORWARD; SQUARE LAW NONLINEARITY (SLN) ESTIMATOR; TIMING RECOVERY;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 33645816341     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2006.1618922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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