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Windowing function for maintaining orthogonality of channels in the reception of OFDM symbols

US6269132A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 26, 1999
Grant dateJul 31, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 26, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/265
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A windowing mechanism for processing an OFDM symbol is presented. The windowing mechanism applies 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, to a received OFDM symbol sample and a time-offset version of the OFDM symbol sample to produce sets of windowed values. The time-offset sample is offset from the original symbol by one half the symbol period. The time-offset windowed sample is shifted into realignment with the windowed original symbol. Corresponding ones of the windowed values are summed together to restore the windowed symbol to its original form.

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