Coordinated multi-cell systems: Carrier frequency offset estimation and correction

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1490-1501

  Zarikoff, Brad W ^a   Cavers, James K ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carrier frequency offset; coordinated multi cell; coordinated systems; frequency correction; frequency estimation; macrodiversity; MIMO; multi base; multi user

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSETS; COORDINATED SYSTEM; FREQUENCY CORRECTION; MACRO-DIVERSITY; MIMO; MULTI-BASE; MULTI-USER; MULTICELL;

BEAMFORMING; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 78649732185     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2010.101210     Document Type: Article

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