Performance evaluation of a carrier recovery scheme for satellite TDMA symbol synchronous burst transmissions

Abstract

This paper presents and evaluates the performance of an open-loop scheme for carrier-phase estimation with Doppler compensation which independently operates on each TDMA burst without requiring any training sequences. The approach is based on two known open-loop algorithms independently used for phase and frequency error estimation. The paper shows how to properly interface these two algorithms and how they can be extended also to include Doppler rate estimation. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.