SNR and noise variance estimation for MIMO systems

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3929-3941

  Das, Aniruddha ^a   Rao, Bhaskar D ^b  

^a VIASAT INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao lower bound (CRLB); expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Frobenius norm estimation; maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; multiple input multiple output (MIMO); noise variance estimation; signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation

Indexed keywords

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FROBENIUS NORM; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; NOISE VARIANCE ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MIMO SYSTEMS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 84863907478     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2194707     Document Type: Article

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