Waveform-independent frame-timing acquisition for UWB signals

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 279-289

  López Salcedo, José A ^a,b   Vázquez, Gregori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frame timing; Nondata aided; Synchronization; Ultra wideband (UWB) communications

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FRAME-TIMING; ULTRAWIDEBAND COMMUNICATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33947401875     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.882081     Document Type: Article

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