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A Study on Frequency Estimation Algorithms

Abstract
Under known signals environments, the problem of frequency estimation can be regarded as that of sinusoidal frequency estimation. Therefore, the frequency estimation of a single complex sinusoid signal in a white Gaussian noise channel is an important problem in the field of signal processing. Some of the applications include array signal processing, spectral estimation, carrier and clock synchronization for digital communications, Doppler rate estimation, and many others in radar and sonar systems.
Frequency estimations based on the information of phase have threshold effects. While the length of the observation data is fixed, the performance of the estimator will be degraded and the variance will not achieve Cramer-Rao lower bound under the condition that signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is below a certain threshold.
In this thesis, two modified frequency estimation methods are proposed in additive white Gaussian noise channels. These two methods, estimating the frequency value by linearly combining the phase difference of correlated data, are basically extended from Kim¡¦s method. These estimators have lower complexity than optimal maximum likelihood estimator and attain as good performance at moderately high SNR¡¦s. These two methods, at high frequency values, yield a considerably lower variance threshold than Kay¡¦s method and Kim¡¦s method and remain unbiased.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0830104-131948
Date30 August 2004
CreatorsHsieh, Meng-Hong
ContributorsMiin-Jong Hao, Ju-Ya Chen, Chin Pian Hung, Chih-Chien Chen, Ken-Huang Lin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830104-131948
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