Stochastic maximum-likelihood method for MIMO propagation parameter estimation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-55

  Ribeiro, Cássio B ^a   Ollila, Esa ^b   Koivunen, Visa ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Channel sounding; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CHANNEL SOUNDING; DIFFUSE SCATTERING COMPONENT; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNELS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947403144     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.882057     Document Type: Article

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