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Synchronization in Wireless Communications

  1. In OFDM-based space division multiple access (SDMA) systems, multiple users are served by a multiantenna base station simultaneously on the same frequency resources. In the uplink, each user's signal may be di...

    Authors: Malte Schellmann and Volker Jungnickel
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:909075
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  3. A complete detection, channel estimation, synchronization, and equalization scheme for a transmitted reference (TR) ultra-wideband (UWB) system is proposed in this paper. The scheme is based on a data model wh...

    Authors: Yiyin Wang, Geert Leus and Alle-Jan van der Veen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:315264
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  4. Hexagonal multicarrier modulation (HMM) system is the technique of choice to overcome the impact of time-frequency dispersive transmission channel. This paper examines the effects of insufficient synchronizati...

    Authors: Kui Xu and Yuehong Shen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:802425
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  5. This paper presents a complete synchronisation scheme of a baseband OFDM receiver for the currently designed 4G mobile communication system. Since the OFDM transmission is vulnerable to time and frequency offs...

    Authors: Adrian Langowski
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:641292
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  6. We present a CFO estimation algorithm and an associated channel estimation method for broadband OFDM systems with transmitter diversity. The CFO estimation algorithm explores the TD structure of the transmitte...

    Authors: Carlos Ribeiro and Atílio Gameiro
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:436756
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  7. The present article develops a decentralized interbase station slot synchronization algorithm suitable for cellular mobile communication systems. The proposed cellular firefly synchronization (CelFSync) algori...

    Authors: Alexander Tyrrell and Gunther Auer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:854087
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  8. We investigate the autocorrelation properties of timing synchronization waveforms that are generated by embedded frequency domain pilot tones in orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) systems. The wave...

    Authors: Oktay Üreten and Selçuk Taşcıoğlu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:538978
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  9. Recent standards for wireless transmission require reliable synchronization for channels with low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as well as with a large amount of frequency offset, which necessitates a robust cor...

    Authors: Dong-Uk Lee, Pansoo Kim and Wonjin Sung
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:345989
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  10. This paper proposes a turbo joint channel estimation, synchronization, and decoding scheme for coded multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. The effects o...

    Authors: Hung Nguyen-Le, Tho Le-Ngoc and ChiChung Ko
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:206524
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  11. This paper investigates the use of Monte Carlo sampling methods for phase noise estimation on additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The main contributions of the paper are (i) the development of a Mon...

    Authors: Frederik Simoens, Dieter Duyck, Hakan Çırpan, Erdal Panayırcı and Marc Moeneclaey
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:296028
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  12. This paper deals with training-assisted carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The exact maximum likelihoo...

    Authors: Michele Morelli, Marco Moretti and Giuseppe Imbarlina
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:821819
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  13. This contribution deals with phase noise estimation from pilot symbols. The phase noise process is approximated by an expansion of discrete cosine transform (DCT) basis functions containing only a few terms.We...

    Authors: Jabran Bhatti and Marc Moeneclaey
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2009 2009:568570
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  14. Recently, a new multiple access (MA) scheme called block-interleaved frequency division multiple access (B-IFDMA) is under consideration as an MA scheme candidate for 4G wireless applications. In this paper, t...

    Authors: E. P. Simon, V. Dégardin and M. Liénard
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2008 2009:483128
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  15. This paper proposes a novel discrete-time second-order distributed consensus time synchronization (SO-DCTS) algorithm for wireless sensor networks. The consensus properties and convergence rates of the SO-DCTS al...

    Authors: Gang Xiong and Shalinee Kishore
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2008 2009:623537
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