Novel joint time delay and frequency estimation method

Abstract

A novel algorithm has been proposed for joint time delay and frequency estimation of sinusoidal signals received at multiple separated sensors. The joint time delay and frequency estimation problem is linked to a trilinear model. Exploiting this link, it derives a trilinear decomposition-based joint time delay and frequency method algorithm. The simulation results reveal that the algorithm performance is close to that of the Cramer–Rao lower bound, and the proposed algorithm even supports small sample sizes.