Title :
Blind phase recovery for QAM modulations using constellation link statistics
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Res. Inst. of Post & Telecommun., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
A novel blind phase estimation method for general QAM constellations is proposed. The method using constellation link statistics and provides significantly improved performance than the maximum-likelihood (ML) method at medium and high SNRs.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood estimation; quadrature amplitude modulation; QAM modulations; blind phase estimation method; blind phase recovery; constellation link statistics; general QAM constellations; maximum-likelihood method;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
