Optimal periodic training signal for frequency offset estimation in frequency-selective fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1081-1096

  Minn, Hlaing ^a,b   Fu, Xiaoyu ^a,b   Bhargava, Vijay K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cramer rao bound (CRB); Frequency offset estimation; Training signal design; Training structure; Zero autocorrelation (ZAC)

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUND (CRB); FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION; TRAINING SIGNAL DESIGN; TRAINING STRUCTURE; ZERO AUTOCORRELATION (ZAC);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION METHODS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847752372     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.876869     Document Type: Article

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