EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 26123, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/26123
Research Article

Transmit Delay Structure Design for Blind Channel Estimation over Multipath Channels

Tongtong Li,1 Qi Ling,1 and Zhi Ding2

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, MI, USA
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis 95616, CA, USA

Received 20 April 2006; Revised 16 October 2006; Accepted 11 February 2007

Academic Editor: Alex Gershman

Copyright © 2007 Tongtong Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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