Patent · US Expired

Synchronization of OFDM signals with improved windowing

US6074086A · kind A · utility

70Cited by
30References
16Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventor

Key dates

Filing dateApr 26, 1999
Grant dateJun 13, 2000
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 26, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/2691
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A mechanism for determining phases of a symbol for phase correlation is provided. The mechanism performs a symmetric apodizing window function on a symbol sample of a symbol having a symbol period of T and a time-offset symbol symbol sample offset from the symbol sample by T/2 to produce first windowed values for the symbol sample and second windowed values for the time-offset symbol sample. The mechanism applies a time shift to re-align the time-offset symbol sample with the symbol sample and sums the second windowed values and the corresponding first windowed values. The summed values are then converted to phases. The symmetric apodizing window function is an apodizing window function having the property W.sub.j +W.sub.(FFTSize,/2+j) =constant, where FFTSize is the size of the FFT sample. The symmetric apodizing window function, such as a Hanning window, may be performed in the time or frequency domain.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.