Pilot-assisted wireless transmissions

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 12-25

  Tong, Lang ^a,b,c   Sadler, Brian M ^d,e   Dong, Min ^f  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECODING; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; OPTIMAL DECODING; PILOT ASSISTED TRANSMISSION (PAT); PILOT SYMBOLS; RECEIVER ADAPTATION; SPECIFIC MULTIPLEXING SCHEME;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85032752251     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2004.1359139     Document Type: Article

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