SNR estimation for multilevel constellations using higher-order moments

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1515-1526

  Álvarez Díaz, Marcos ^a   López Valcarce, Roberto ^a   Mosquera, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blind estimation; Higher order statistics; Moments based estimation; Signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation

Indexed keywords

BLIND ESTIMATIONS; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MOMENTS-BASED ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-DATA-AIDED; OPERATION RANGE; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ESTIMATION; SNR ESTIMATION; SNR RANGE; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79953102107     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2036069     Document Type: Article

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