Maximum-likelihood symbol synchronization for IEEE 802.11a WLANs in unknown frequency-selective fading channels Academic Article

abstract

• Based on the maximum-likelihood principle and the preamble structure of IEEE 802.11a wireless local area network (WLAN) standard, this paper proposes a new symbol synchronization algorithm for IEEE 802.11a WLANs over frequency-selective fading channels. In addition to the physical channel, the effects of filtering and unknown sampling phase offset are also considered. Loss in system performance due to synchronization error is used as a performance criterion. Computer simulations show that the proposed algorithm exhibits better performances than the simple correlation-based algorithms. When compared to the algorithm based on the generalized Akaike information criterion, the proposed algorithm presents comparable performance and exhibits reduced complexity. 2005 IEEE.

authors

• Serpedin, Erchin

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Wu, Y. C., Yip, K. W., Ng, T. S., & Serpedin, E.

citation count

• 24

complete list of authors

• Wu, YC||Yip, KW||Ng, TS||Serpedin, E

publication date

• November 2005

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications  Journal

keywords

• Frequency Selective
• Ieee 802.11a Wireless Local Area Network (wlan)
• Maximum Likelihood (nil)
• Multipath Fading Channel
• Symbol Synchronization

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/TWC.2005.858008

start page

• 2751

end page

• 2763

volume

• 4

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/twc.2005.858008