Keywords

frequency estimation, sampling

Abstract

Single-tone frequency estimation from irregularly spaced samples is analyzed. The ratio of the Cramr-Rao Bound (CRB) for regularly spaced samples to the bound for irregularly spaced samples is presented and shown to be a globally convex function. It's minima and maxima over the domain of interest are identified which reveals that improvements in the CRB can be obtained using non-equally-spaced samples. For a given sampling density, the best estimates of frequency are obtained when half of the samples are taken at one end of the total available interval and the remaining samples are taken at the other end.

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2004-08-30

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/39

Language

English

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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