Blind channel estimation in aperiodic time-hopping ultra-wideband communications

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 6 I, 2006, Pages 2333-2346

  Xu, Zhengyuan ^a   Tang, Jin ^a  

^a University of California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aperiodic time hopping; Channel estimation; Impulse radio; Moment matching; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION; MULTIUSER INTERFERENCE; TIME-HOPPING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 33744513654     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.874032     Document Type: Article

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