Frame timing synchronization for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
US7809097B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 16, 2006 |
| Grant date | Oct 5, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 26, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L27/2676
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A frame timing synchronization technique for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is presented. First, a coarse synchronization technique generates a coarse frame timing estimate. The coarse synchronization technique applies a sliding window differentiator to the output of a conventional auto-correlator to mitigate the plateau effect associated with conventional auto-correlation techniques. Second, a fine synchronization technique generates a fine frame timing estimate. The fine synchronization technique uses the coarse frame timing estimate to reduce the number of cross-correlation calculations. Additionally, the fine synchronization technique acquires a fine frame timing estimate based on a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) metric, which is more robust to multi-paths and pseudo multi-paths caused by cyclic delay diversity (CDD) schemes than conventional cross-correlation synchronization techniques. A fine-tuning technique generates a desired frame timing estimate by searching a first signal path in a searching window around the fine frame timing estimate to further refine frame timing synchronization.
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