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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JCN.2013.000032

Cell Searching and DoA Estimation for a Mobile Relay Station in a Multipath Environment  

Pec, Rothna (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chung-Ang Univ.)
Hong, Tae Howan (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chung-Ang Univ.)
Cho, Yong Soo (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chung-Ang Univ.)
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Journal of Communications and Networks / v.15, no.2, 2013 , pp. 191-197 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a mobile relay station (MRS) for vehicles with a beamforming antenna is considered to increase the reliability of the transmission link, particularly for the MRS at the cell boundary. A cell searching and direction-of-arrival estimation method for an MRS with a uniform linear array is proposed for OFDM-based cellular systems in a multipath environment, even with the existence of the symbol timing offsets and carrier frequency offsets. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by computer simulation using the standard profile of IEEE 802.16e.
Keywords
Cell searching; DoA estimation; mobile relay station; multipath environment;
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