Iterative carrier frequency offset and channel estimation for underwater acoustic OFDM systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1650-1661

  Kang, Taehyuk ^a   Iltis, Ronald A ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier frequency offset; EXIT chart; Iterative receiver; Low density parity check codes; Matching pursuits; OFDM; Underwater acoustic communications

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; CIVIL AVIATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECODING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL ENCODING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET; EXIT CHART; ITERATIVE RECEIVER; LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES; MATCHING PURSUITS; OFDM; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS;

ITERATIVE DECODING;

EID: 57049093940     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.081205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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