Title : 
An Iterative ML-based Carrier Frequency Estimation Algorithm
         
        
            Author : 
Wu, Luo ; An, Liu ; Liu, Bin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of EECS, Peking Univ., Beijing
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose an iterative data-aided algorithm based on maximum likelihood criteria for carrier frequency estimation in burst-mode phase shift keying (PSK) transmission. The proposed algorithm has a low threshold and its estimation range is large, about plusmn40% of the symbol rate. In addition, its accuracy is close to the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) at signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) above threshold. The performance of the proposed algorithm is better and its computational complexity is also lower compared with previous ML-based algorithms.
         
        
            Keywords : 
computational complexity; maximum likelihood estimation; phase shift keying; signal processing; Cramer-Rao bound; burst-mode phase shift keying transmission; carrier frequency estimation algorithm; computational complexity; iterative data-aided algorithm; maximum likelihood criteria; signal-to-noise ratio; symbol rate; Computational complexity; Digital communication; Frequency estimation; Iterative algorithms; Maximum likelihood detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Phase estimation; Phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio; Yield estimation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communication Technology, 2006. ICCT '06. International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guilin
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0800-8
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1-4244-0801-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICCT.2006.341700