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Speaker: Malik Muhammad Gul
Title:
Timing and Frequency Synchronization for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Systems
Abstract:
Reliable timing and frequency synchronization is a major requirement in an OFDMA system as synchronization errors can result in inter-symbol-interference (ISI) and inter-carrier-interference (ICI) in the received signal, which severely degrade system performance. In this talk, data-aided timing and frequency synchronization techniques for downlink OFDMA transmissions will be presented. We will start with the conventional downlink transmission case, in which a user synchronizes to a base-station, followed by the coordinated multi-point transmission case, in which a user synchronizes with multiple base-stations at the same time. We will also present the results obtained from the test-bed, developed for the implementation of the proposed algorithms.
Bio:
Malik Muhammad Gul received his B.E and M.S. in electrical engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology in Pakistan in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include the design, analysis and the implementation of detection, synchronization, and channel estimation algorithms for wireless networks.
He is currently a graduate research assistant in the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) and pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. His current research interests include information theory, molecular communications, and statistical learning.
