Nasir, AliMehrpouyan, HaniBlostein, StevenKennedy, RodneyOttersten, BjornDurrani, Salman2015-12-1320130090-6778http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74034For distributed multi-user and multi-relay cooperative networks, the received signal may be affected by multiple timing offsets (MTOs) and multiple channels that need to be jointly estimated for successful decoding at the receiver. This paper addresses thapplication/pdfen-AUKeywords: Cramer Rao lower bound; Distributed communications; Maximum a posteriori; Timing offsets; Training sequences; Channel estimation; Computer simulation; Cramer-Rao bounds; Design; Estimation; Optimization; Signal receivers; Synchronization; Telecommunicatio And maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) estimation; Channel estimation; Distributed communication network; Hybrid Cramer-Rao lower bound (HCRB); Multiple timing offsets (MTOs); Synchronization; Training sequence (TS)10.1109/TCOMM.2013.053013.1205412016-02-24