• DocumentCode
    1497705
  • Title

    Comments on "Timing Estimation and Resynchronization for Amplify-and-Forward Communication Systems

  • Author

    Mehrpouyan, Hani ; Blostein, Steven D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Volume
    59
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    4047
  • Lastpage
    4048
  • Abstract
    This comment first shows that the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) derivations in the above paper are not exact. In addition, contrary to the claims in the above paper, the assumptions of perfect timing offset estimation and matched-filtering at the relays affect the generality of the analytical results and cannot be justified.
  • Keywords
    amplify and forward communication; matched filters; synchronisation; CRLB derivations; Cramer-Rao lower bound; amplify-and-forward communication systems; matched-filtering; timing offset estimation; timing resynchronization; Communication systems; Cramer-Rao bounds; Estimation; Relays; Synchronization; Amplify-and-forward; Cramér–Rao lower bound; cooperative communications; synchronization; timing offset estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1053-587X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSP.2011.2143708
  • Filename
    5752261