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- Landström, Daniel, et al.
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Symbol time offset estimation in coherent OFDM systems
- 1999
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In: IEEE International Conference on Communications. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Communications Society. - 078035284X ; , s. 500-505
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents a symbol time offset estimator for coherent OFDM systems. This estimator exploits both the redundancy in the cyclic prefix and the pilot symbols used for channel estimation. The estimator is robust against frequency offsets and is suitable for use in dispersive channels. We base the estimator on the ML estimator for the AWGN channel. Simulations of an example system indicate a system performance as close as 0.3 dB to a perfectly synchronized system. Compared to an estimator not using pilots, our estimator's performance could allow a shorter cyclic prefix and thus a more spectrally efficient system.
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- Sjöberg, Frank, et al.
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Power back-off for multiple target bit rates
- 1998
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This contribution describes a new efficient method to perform power back-off in the upstream of a VDSL-system. The method gives higher data rates than the earlier proposals, i.e., the constant back-off method and the reference length method. One conceptual difference with this new method is that we are not using just one design parameter as with the reference frequency and reference length methods. With this new method all users are assigned a certain service class, a target bit rate. The method then performs the power back-off such that it tries to maximize the bit rate (the system margin) for all the other users. The method tries to create FEXT, at each NT, that has the same spectral shape as the background noise. Between 5% and 20% improvement in bit rates is achieved with this new method when using the FSAN models for cable, crosstalk and background noise. The larger improvements over the other methods appear when non-flat background is present. This is because the PSD of the background noise is included in the model used by method. For thinner wires, like the TP1 wire, the method can give more than 20% higher data rate for almost all users.
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- van de Beek, Jan-Jaap, et al.
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A time and frequency synchronization scheme for multiuser OFDM
- 1999
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In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 0733-8716 .- 1558-0008. ; 17:11, s. 1900-1914
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present a multiuser synchronization scheme for tracking the mobile's uplink time and frequency offsets. It uses the redundancy introduced by the cyclic prefix and does not need additional pilots. We show performance results of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based radio interface based on universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) parameters. For a UMTS-typical mobile channel environment, the performance of a coherent system employing the scheme is virtually indistinguishable from the performance of a perfectly synchronized system. In a differentially modulated system, synchronization errors decrease the system performance by about 0.7 dB compared to a perfectly synchronized system. Index Terms - Communication system, delay estimation, frequency estimation, multicarrier, multiuser system, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), synchronization, universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS).
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- van de Beek, Jan-Jaap, et al.
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Three non-pilot-based time and frequency estimators for OFDM
- 1998
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Time-domain Maximum-Likelihood (ML) estimators of time and frequency o¤sets are derived for three Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal models: a pulse-shaped one-shot OFDM signal, a stream of multiple OFDM signals and an OFDM signal in a dispersive channel environment. We then develop structures to simplify their implementation. Simulation results show the relative performance and strengths of each of these three estimators.
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- van de Beek, Jaap, et al.
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Synchronization of a TDMA-OFDM frequency hopping system
- 1998
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In: Pathway to a global wireless revolution. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Communications Society. - 0780343204 ; , s. 1290-1294
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we present a Time Division Multiple Access-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (TDMA-OFDM)-based radio interface proposal for the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). We focus on synchronization and present an implementable algorithm for the tracking of the mobiles' time and frequency offsets at the base station in the uplink. This algorithm is based on recently developed estimation methods that use redundancy introduced by the cyclic prefix. A modified Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimator for the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel is used to meet both implementational requirements and performance requirements for frequency-selective fading multiuser environments. Simulation results for a typical UMTS mobile channel environment show that the uncoded symbol error rate of a coherently modulated system using our synchronization scheme is virtually indistinguishable from that of a system with no time and frequency offset.
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