Robust and consistent pilot designs for frequency offset estimation in MIMO OFDM systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1737-1747

  Li, Yinghui ^a   Minn, Hlaing ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Frequency offset; Maximum likelihood estimation; MIMO OFDM; Pilot design; Robustness

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; DESIGN; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONSISTENCY; FREQUENCY OFFSET; MIMO OFDM; PILOT DESIGN; ROBUSTNESS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 54949149853     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.060522     Document Type: Article

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