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Kurtosis-Based Symbol Timing and Carrier Phase/Frequency Tracking
Todd K Moon1, Jacob H Gunther1
1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
Abstract:
Kurtosis is known to be effective at estimating signal timing and carrier phase offset when the processing is performed in a "burst mode," that is, operating on a block of received signal in an offline fashion. In this paper, kurtosis-based estimation is extended to provide tracking of timing and carrier phase, and frequency offsets. The algorithm is compared with conventional PLL-type timing/phase estimation and shown to be superior in terms of speed of convergence, with comparable variance in the matched filter output symbols.
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