Carrier frequency offset estimation for OFDM systems using null subcarriers

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 813-823

  Huang, Defeng ^a,b   Letaief, Khaled Ben ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carrier frequency offset (CFO); Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET; SUBCARRIER ALLOCATION;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33646922840     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.874001     Document Type: Article

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