OFDM symbol synchronization using frequency domain pilots in time domain

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3240-3248

  Filippi, Alessio ^a   Serbetli, Semih ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; Fine time synchronization; IBI; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; SINR

Indexed keywords

BASIC IDEA; CHANNEL LENGTH; CYCLIC PREFIX; FINE TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN PILOTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; IBI; INTERFERENCE POWER; INTERFERENCE RATIO; OFDM SYMBOLS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS; ROUGH CHANNELS; SHORT CHANNELS; SINR; SYMBOL SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME DOMAIN;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION; TERMINOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WINDOWS;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 67651176122     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.081224     Document Type: Article

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