Timing and carrier synchronization with channel estimation in multi-relay cooperative networks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 793-811

  Nasir, Ali A ^a   Mehrpouyan, Hani ^b   Blostein, Steven D ^c   Durrani, Salman ^a   Kennedy, Rodney A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative communications; Cram r Rao lower bounds (CRLB); expectation conditional maximization (ECM); space alternating generalized expectation maximization (SAGE); timing and carrier synchronization

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; EXPECTATION CONDITIONAL MAXIMIZATIONS; LOWER BOUNDS; SPACE ALTERNATING GENERALIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECODING; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84855919891     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2174792     Document Type: Article

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