A new blind joint timing and frequency offset estimator for OFDM systems over multipath fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2947-2957

  Mo, Ronghong ^a   Chew, Yong Huat ^a   Tjhung, Tjeng Thiang ^a   Ko, Chin Chung ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blind joint symbol timing (ST) and frequency synchronization; Frequency selective fading; Maximum likelihood (ML); Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ALUMINUM; BIT ERROR RATE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MULTIPATH FADING; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRUCKS;

BLIND JOINT SYMBOL TIMING (ST) AND FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE FADING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML); ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM);

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 53149102855     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.914058     Document Type: Article

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