TR2015-080

Multi-Pilot Aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Single Carrier Coherent Systems

    •  Pajovic, M., Millar, D.S., Koike-Akino, T., Kojima, K., Arlunno, V., Parsons, K., "Multi-Pilot Aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Single Carrier Coherent Systems", Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom), DOI: 10.1364/​SPPCOM.2015.SpT4D.4, June 2015.
      BibTeX TR2015-080 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Pajovic2015jun,
      • author = {Pajovic, M. and Millar, D.S. and Koike-Akino, T. and Kojima, K. and Arlunno, V. and Parsons, K.},
      • title = {Multi-Pilot Aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Single Carrier Coherent Systems},
      • booktitle = {Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)},
      • year = 2015,
      • month = jun,
      • doi = {10.1364/SPPCOM.2015.SpT4D.4},
      • isbn = {978-1-55752-000-5},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-080}
      • }
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    Communications, Signal Processing

Abstract:

We propose a novel low complexity CPE algorithm that uses pilot symbols and inference for estimating carrier phase in single carrier systems. Performance is validated by simulation of 64QAM over the range of SNRs for which 64QAM is optimal for BICM.