Estimation of ricean K parameter and local average SNR from noisy correlated channel samples

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 640-648

  Chen, Yunfei ^a,b   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated samples; Fading channels; Parameter estimation; Ricean; SNR

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED SAMPLES; INDEPENDENT CHANNEL; RICEAN FADING CHANNEL;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33847695325     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05415     Document Type: Article

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