• DocumentCode
    2690972
  • Title

    SNR Estimation in Nakagami Fading Channels with Arbitrary Constellation

  • Author

    Dianat, Sohail A.

  • Author_Institution
    Rochester Inst. of Technol., NY, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    15-20 April 2007
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a novel technique is proposed to estimate the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for Nakagami-m fading channels with an arbitrary signal constellation. The Nakagami-m distribution is a good fit to empirical fading data obtained from radio communication channels. The proposed algorithm uses absolute second and fourth moments of the envelope of the received signal over a block of data as the sufficient statistics. The estimator is blind and no training sequence is used. It is also independent of signal constellation.
  • Keywords
    Nakagami channels; channel estimation; Nakagami-m distribution; Nakagami-m fading channels; SNR estimation; arbitrary signal constellation; blind estimation; empirical fading data; radio communication channels; signal-to-noise ratio; Constellation diagram; Diversity reception; Fading; Gaussian noise; Nakagami distribution; Radio communication; Rayleigh channels; Signal processing; Signal to noise ratio; Tin; Nakagami-m; estimation; fading; signal-to-noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0727-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366238
  • Filename
    4217411