Performance improvement of non-data-aided feedforward symbol timing estimation using the "Better Than" raised-cosine pulse

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 542-544

  Lee, Seung Joon ^a,b   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Estimation; Feedforward neural networks; Reactive power; Signal to noise ratio; Synchronization; Timing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BANDWIDTH; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUNDS; FEED FORWARD; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; NON-DATA-AIDED; PERFORMANCE GAINS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYMBOL TIMING ESTIMATION; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING;

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS;

EID: 49049097900     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.060347     Document Type: Article

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