IEICE Trans - Cell Searching and DoA Estimation Methods for Mobile Relay Stations with a Uniform Linear Array

Cell Searching and DoA Estimation Methods for Mobile Relay Stations with a Uniform Linear Array

Yo-Han KO
Chang-Hwan PARK
Soon-Jik KWON
Yong-Soo CHO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E95-B No.3 pp.803-809
Publication Date: 2012/03/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E95.B.803
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Transmission Systems and Transmission Equipment for Communications
Keyword:
mobile relay station, vehicle, uniform linear array, cell searching, DoA estimation,

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Summary:
In this paper, cell searching and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation methods are proposed for mobile relay stations with a uniform linear arrays in OFDM-based cellular systems. The proposed methods can improve the performance of cell searching and DoA estimation, even when there exist symbol timing offsets among the signals received from adjacent base stations and Doppler frequency shifts caused by the movement of the mobile relay station. The performances and computational complexities of the proposed cell searching and DoA estimation methods are evaluated by computer simulation under a mobile WiMAX environment.