Blind channel estimation for amplify-and-forward two-way relay networks employing M -PSK modulation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3604-3615

  Abdallah, Saeed ^a   Psaromiligkos, Ioannis N ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; channel estimation; constant modulus; maximum likelihood; two way relays

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFY AND FORWARD; BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CONSTANT MODULI; DATA SYMBOLS; DETERMINISTIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; GAUSSIANS; HIGH PROBABILITY; HIGH SNR; LEAST SQUARE; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUISANCE PARAMETER; PSK MODULATION; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SYMBOL ERROR RATES; TRAINING OVERHEAD; TWO-WAY RELAY; TWO-WAY RELAY NETWORKS;

AMPLIFICATION; BLIND EQUALIZATION; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84862616780     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2193577     Document Type: Article

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