ICI-minimizing blind uplink time synchronization for OFDMA-based cognitive radio systems

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Güvenç, Ismail ^a   Tombaz, Sibel ^b   Şahin, Mustafa E ^b   Arslan, Hüseyin ^b   Çirpan, Hakan Ali ^c  

^a DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blind synchronization; Cognitive radio; Femtocell; ICI; Macrocell; OFDMA; Opportunistic spectrum access

Indexed keywords

BLIND SYNCHRONIZATION; COGNITIVE RADIO; DETECTION PROBLEMS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; INTERCARRIER INTERFERENCE; MACRO CELLS; OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKS; OPPORTUNISTIC SPECTRUM ACCESS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; RADIO SPECTRA; SUB-CARRIERS; SYNCHRONIZATION TECHNIQUE; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO SYSTEMS; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIO;

EID: 77951547889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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