Frame detection and timing acquisition for OFDM transmissions with unknown interference

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1226-1236

  Sanguinetti, Luca ^a   Morelli, Michele ^a   Poor, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Frame and timing synchronization; Generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT); Inverse gamma distribution; Narrowband interference; OFDM

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSETS; CFO ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; DATA STREAM; FRAME DETECTION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD-RATIO TESTS; INTERFERENCE POWER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; NARROW BAND INTERFERENCE; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; NUISANCE PARAMETER; OFDM TRANSMISSION; PERFORMANCE LOSS; REPETITIVE STRUCTURE; TIME DOMAIN; TIMING ACQUISITION; TIMING METRIC; TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION; TRAINING SYMBOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 77949548114     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.03.091213     Document Type: Article

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