Scattered pilots and virtual carriers based frequency offset tracking for OFDM systems: Algorithms, identifiability, and performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 619-629

  Gao, Feifei ^a   Cui, Tao ^c   Nallanathan, Arumugam ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier frequency offset; CFO ambiguity; Constellation rotation; IEEE 802.11a; OFDM

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CIVIL AVIATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL ENCODING; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ASYMPTOTIC MEAN SQUARE ERROR; CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET; CFO AMBIGUITY; CFO ESTIMATION; CONSTELLATION ROTATION; FREQUENCY OFFSET; IDENTIFIABILITY; IEEE 802.11A; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; OFDM; OFDM BLOCKS; OFDM SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; SCATTERED PILOTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING ALGORITHMS; VIRTUAL CARRIERS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 49049105475     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.060050     Document Type: Article

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