A Self-Adapting Symbol Rate Estimator Based on Wavelet Transform with Optimal Scale and Resample

Traditional symbol rate estimators based on wavelet transform (WT) suffer from difficulties in choosing wavelet scale. Additionally, the most estimators are only adapted to limited signal types. Furthermore, those estimators are susceptible to noise, which is impractical to implement. In this paper, to overcome shortages of those traditional estimators, a self- adapting symbol rate estimator is proposed. The proposed estimator has advantages in reliably working under low Eb-to-N0. More importantly, it can be widely used to estimate various types of signal. The numerical simulations show that the proposed estimator has superiority in performance compared with the improved estimators based on wavelet transform.