Practical timing and frequency synchronization for OFDM-based cooperative systems

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3706-3716

  Huang, Qinfei ^a   Ghogho, Mounir ^b   Wei, Jibo ^a   Ciblat, Philippe ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation; Cooperative systems; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Timing estimation

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION; CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSETS; CFO ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; DECODE AND FORWARD; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE CHANNEL; FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION; NULL SUBCARRIERS; SPACE ALTERNATING GENERALIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; SUBSPACE DECOMPOSITION; SYNCHRONIZATION ERROR; SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM; TILE SIZE; TIMING ESTIMATION; TIMING OFFSETS; TRAINING METHODS; TRAINING SEQUENCES;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 77953738244     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2046898     Document Type: Article

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