Performance analysis of blind carrier phase estimators for general QAM constellations

Author

Serpedin, E. ; Ciblat, P. ; Giannakis, G.B. ; Loubaton, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

175

Abstract

Large quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations are currently used in throughput-efficient high-speed communication applications such as digital TV. For such large signal constellations, carrier phase synchronization is a crucial problem because for efficiency reasons the carrier acquisition must often be performed blindly, without the use of training or pilot sequences. The goal of the present paper is to provide thorough performance analysis of the blind carrier phase estimators that have been proposed in the literature and to assess their relative merits

Keywords

digital television; phase estimation; quadrature amplitude modulation; signal detection; synchronisation; QAM constellations; blind carrier phase estimators; carrier acquisition; carrier phase synchronization; digital TV; high-speed communication; performance analysis; quadrature amplitude modulation; signal constellations; Amplitude estimation; Communication systems; Constellation diagram; Contacts; Convergence; Maximum likelihood estimation; Performance analysis; Phase estimation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Stochastic processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Statistical Signal and Array Processing, 2000. Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pocono Manor, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5988-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSAP.2000.870105

Filename

870105