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Title: Using convolutional decoding to improve time delay and phase estimation in digital communications

Patent ·
OSTI ID:978856

The time delay and/or phase of a communication signal received by a digital communication receiver can be estimated based on a convolutional decoding operation that the communication receiver performs on the received communication signal. If the original transmitted communication signal has been spread according to a spreading operation, a corresponding despreading operation can be integrated into the convolutional decoding operation.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
7,653,155
Application Number:
10/982,134
OSTI ID:
978856
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

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Viterbi detection with simultaneous suboptimal maximum likelihood carrier phase estimation journal January 1988
A dynamic programming algorithm for simultaneous phase estimation and data decoding on random-phase channels journal September 1981