A spectrum-efficient multicarrier CDMA array-receiver with diversity-based enhanced time and frequency synchronization

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2315-2327

  Smida, Besma ^a,b   Afies, Sofiène ^a,c   Li, Jun ^d   Mermelstein, Paul ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Carrier frequency offset recovery; Channel identification; Code division multiple access (CDMA); MC DS CDMA; MT CDMA; Multicarrier systems; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET RECOVERY; CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION; FREQUENCY DIVERSITIES; MULTICARRIER SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 34547774156     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05842     Document Type: Article

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