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Communication system receiver apparatus and method for fast carrier acquisition

US5233632A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 10, 1991
Grant dateAug 3, 1993
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Expiry dateMay 10, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B1/30
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A communications system receiver (100) is disclosed which receives a transmitted signal over a radio channel. The transmitted signal includes data and a predetermined synchronization sequence. The receiver (100) includes a demodulator (215), and a stored replica (207) of the predetermined synchronization sequence. The receiver (100) further includes apparatus (102) for computing (308) a reconstructed signal, by using the channel impulse response characteristic and the stored replica (207) of the synchronization sequence. A feature of the invention is to estimate (310) a phase offset value between an incoming signal and the reconstructed signal, for a plurality of synchronization symbols. This serves to establish (315) a relationship between the phase offset and a synchronization symbol index. The receiver then employs this relationship to derive (317) at least one "previous" phase state (214) for initializing (314) the demodulator (215).

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