Robust time-of-arrival estimation in multipath channels with OFDM signals. Bialer, O., Raphaeli, D., & Weiss, A. J. In 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pages 2724-2728, Aug, 2017.
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Time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation of OFDM signals in multipath channels is challenging, especially when the signal bandwidth is limited, such as is the case of WIFI. In this paper, a novel low complexity TOA estimation algorithm is developed for OFDM signals that is robust to various multipath environments. We approximate the received signal as Gaussian with a proposed autocorrelation model, and then derive the Maximum Likelihood estimator with an efficient implementation algorithm. The estimator performance was tested with off-the-shelf WIFI 802.11g routers. The results show that the proposed TOA estimator outperforms other known reference methods over various indoor environments.

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