ChinaCom2009-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

Research Article

An Applied Method for Blind SNR Estimation in Communication Signals

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339749,
        author={ZHANG Hai-ying and YUAN Chao-wei},
        title={An Applied Method for Blind SNR Estimation in Communication Signals},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-SPC},
        year={2009},
        month={11},
        keywords={Power distribution function corner detection signal-noise-ratio (SNR) estimation},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339749}
    }
    
  • ZHANG Hai-ying
    YUAN Chao-wei
    Year: 2009
    An Applied Method for Blind SNR Estimation in Communication Signals
    CHINACOM2009-SPC
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339749
ZHANG Hai-ying1, YUAN Chao-wei1
  • 1: (Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China)

Abstract

A simple and applied method for blind SNR estimation in wireless communication signals is presented. Corner is an important information parameter in power distribution function, Signal bandwidth and signal-noise-ratio (SNR) can be accurately estimated through testing the parameter. Theoretical analysis and simulation show that the new algorithm doesn’t need any prior information, has lower computational complexity and higher precision, suitable for hardware implementation.