A maximum likelihood time delay estimation algorithm using Monte Carlo method(MCML)is proposed to solve the problems that the maximum likelihood delay algorithm has high computational complexity due to peak searching and is easy to fall into local convergence. A likelihood function is constructed by using the channel response estimation vector in frequency domain. Then the MCML translates the time delay estimation into the expectation of a random variable
and a standardization probability density function is built from the index likelihood function to approximate an impulse function
and to make the variance of the random variable approach zero. Finally
the random variable is sampled using the Monte Carlo method
and the time delay is estimated from sampling mean. Compared with the traditional methods
the MCML avoids the grid search
reduces the computational complexity
and ensures the global convergence and estimation accuracy. Simulation results show that the MCML is always close to Cramer-Rao bound
and the time delay estimation range of the MCML is 34% of the MCMC's range when the signal to noise ratio is from 0 dB to 25 dB.
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