Robust and accurate frequency and timing synchronization using chirp signals

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-123

  Boumard, Sandrine ^a   Mämmelä, Aarne ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chirp signals; OFDM; Preamble; Single carrier; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CHIRP SIGNALS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY OFFSETS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATIONS; INTEGER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATIONS; MATCHED FILTERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI-PATH CHANNELS; OFDM; OUTPUT SIGNALS; PREAMBLE; SINGLE CARRIER; STATE-OF-THE ARTS; TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS; TIMING SYNCHRONIZATIONS; TRAINING SEQUENCES;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 61449127175     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2008.2008712     Document Type: Article

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