Title
Fundamental limits on phase and frequency tracking and estimation in drifting oscillators
Abstract
Distributed beamforming requires phase and frequency synchronization. As oscillators drift, through Brownian motion induced phase noise, their instantaneous phases must be tracked and compensated. Several papers and IEEE 1588 have proposed Kalman Filter (KF) based tracking algorithms using the unwrapped phase measurements. This paper quantifies the effect of Brownian Motion induced drift at two levels. First we derive Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds (CRLB) manifest in one shot estimation of frequency and phase from unwrapped phase observations, and reveal fundamental and illuminating differences with the existing frequency and phase estimation CRLBs in the literature derived in the absence of Brownian motion. Second, we consider a KF that tracks the instantaneous phase in intervals where there is no beamforming, and is switched off during beamforming. Bounds are derived relating the error growth as a function of the underlying duty cycle.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6289098
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Brownian motion,Kalman filters,array signal processing,frequency estimation,oscillators,phase estimation,phase noise,synchronisation,target tracking,Brownian motion,CRLB,Cramer-Rao lower bounds,IEEE 1588,KF-based tracking algorithms,Kalman filter,distributed beamforming,drifting oscillators,duty cycle,frequency estimation,frequency synchronization,frequency tracking,fundamental limits,instantaneous phase compensation,instantaneous phase tracking,phase estimation,phase noise,phase synchronization,unwrapped phase measurements,Brownian Motion,Cramer Rao Lower Bound,Kalman Filter,Oscillator Drift,Phase Noise
Linear phase,Cramér–Rao bound,Beamforming,Control theory,Computer science,Duty cycle,Phase noise,Kalman filter,Brownian motion,Instantaneous phase
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-0044-5
978-1-4673-0044-5
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Donald Richard Brown170.60
Raghuraman Mudumbai270.94
Soura Dasgupta367996.96