On the Cramer-Rao bound for time delay and Doppler estimation

Using a theorem due to Whittle, simple derivations of the Cramer-Rao lower bound are presented for some delay estimation problems related to a single source, multiple sources, and multipath. The problem of Doppler estimation is briefly discussed.

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