Two potential MMA antenna designs are compared with respect to sensitivity, polarization purity, field-of-view and sidelobe level. Under conditions of very low atmospheric opacity and receiver noise temperature the offset reflector design has better sensitivity than the minimum blockage conventional design at about the 10% level. The offset design has poorer performance than the conventional de...

In this paper, we present a new channel estimator design of a receiver for the next generation high-speed mobile data communications based on OFDM. First an overview of the OFDM system suitable for mobile communications is described. The effects of non-ideal transmission conditions of the OFDM system including channel estimation errors, symbol timing offset, carrier and sampling clock offset, p...

The use of multi-level (QAM-type) modulations in mobile communications affected by fading and Doppler shift imposes a tight control on the carrier frequency offset if quasi-coherent detection is a goal. This aspect is taken into account by the receiver herein proposed. A 16-DAPSK (differential amplitude phase shift-keying) scheme is considered, with one bit being absolutely encoded in amplitude...

This paper describes a radio-frequency receiver targeting spread-spectrum wireless local-area-network applications in the 2.4-GHz band. Based on a direct-conversion architecture, the receiver employs partial channel selection filtering, dc offset removal, and baseband amplification. Fabricated in a 0.6m CMOS technology, the receiver achieves a noise figure of 8.3 dB, IP3 of 9 dBm, IP 2 of +22 d...

A multistage fuzzy minimum output energy (MOE) detector is proposed for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) multi-carrier code-division-multiple access (MC-CDMA) uplink systems with carrier frequency offset (CFO) over multipath fading channels. The first stage of the receiver uses a novel MIMO receiver model with offset symbols to achieve a fuzzy CFO-constrained MOE detector that suppresses m...

Abstract The Park’s method suffers from symbol timing ambiguity and small acquisition range for carrier frequency offset, and cannot estimate sampling frequency offset. To solve these problems, a new training symbol including virtual carriers is designed, and the corresponding joint synchronization algorithm for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is proposed. In the propo...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems are very sensitive to the frequency offset of the local oscillator at the receiver while the symbol timing offset can be absorbed in the guard interval. For the same reason, estimation of the frequency characteristics, needed for OFDM to be adapted to the frequency selective fading, can only be carried out conventionally after the freque...

It is essential to understand the consumption pattern of food and how it changes over time to formulate sound economic policies as well as marketing and pricing strategies. In this study, we estimate the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with six rounds of the Family Income Expenditure Survey exploiting the conditional linearity of the demand system. We find that the Filipino diet has become...

This paper demonstrates a real-time software receiver supporting GPS/WAAS dual-frequency (L1/L5) processing. The software receiver is implemented on a widely-available recent generation multi-core processor and is capable of post-processing datasets from collection hardware. Key contributions of this software receiver are that 1) it is perhaps the first receiver capable positioning solely on L5...