A robust timing synchronization design in OFDM systems-part I: Low-mobility cases

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4329-4339

  Mostofi, Yasamin ^a,b   Cox, Donald C ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Timing synchronization

Indexed keywords

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM); TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION ERRORS;

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; FADING CHANNELS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 37049039656     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05900     Document Type: Article

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