Initial Timing with Cooperation of Distributed Receive Antennas

Abstract:

To improve the accuracy of initial timing, an estimation method with the cooperation of distributed receive antennas is proposed in this paper. In the cooperation area, we consider two distributed receive antennas to receive the signal transmitted from the MS over the flat Rayleigh channels. The prior information of coverage region from each distributed receive antenna is firstly exploited to form a precondition of cooperation. Then we derive the threshold detection method based on the precondition. With the proposed method, the simulation results show that the probability of correct estimation for each distributed receive antenna is improved.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 380-384)
• Pages: 4027-4030
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.380-384.4027
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Chao Jin Qing, Jin Cheng Wei, Zi Shu He, You Xi Tang
• Keywords: Antenna Cooperation, Initial Timing Estimation, Threshold Detection

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