Improving frequency estimation performance for burst transmissions by optimising reference symbol distribution

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3037-3045

  Beahan, Brendan ^a   Cowley, William ^b  

^a Ultra Electronics   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burst acquisition; CramerRao lower bound; Frequency estimation: data aided; Likelihood functions; Maximum likelihood estimation; Non uniform sampling; Reference symbols; Threshold effect

Indexed keywords

BURST ACQUISITION; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DATA-AIDED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NONUNIFORM SAMPLING; THRESHOLD EFFECT;

ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 77955419783     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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