Robust time-domain timing and frequency synchronization for OFDM systems

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 391-399

  Awoseyila, Adegbenga B ^a   Kasparis, Christos ^a   Evans, Barry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; OFDM; Synchronization; Threshold detection

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION; CHANNEL DISTORTIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION; FREQUENCY ACCURACY; FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION; ISI CHANNELS; LOW COMPLEXITY; OFDM; OFDM SYSTEMS; SIGNAL SAMPLING; THRESHOLD DETECTION; TIME DOMAIN; TRAINING SYMBOLS;

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RAYLEIGH FADING; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 68949167924     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2009.5174399     Document Type: Article

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