Maximum likelihood SNR estimation of linearly-modulated signals over time-varying flat-fading SIMO channels

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 441-456

  Bellili, Faouzi ^a   Meftehi, Rabii ^a   Affes, Sofiene ^a   Stephenne, Alex ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

CRLB; detection; expectation maximization (EM); ML estimation; SNR; time varying SIMO channels

Indexed keywords

BLIND EQUALIZATION; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CRLB; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; ML ESTIMATION; SIMO CHANNEL; SNR;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84919897465     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2014.2364017     Document Type: Article

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