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Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications device and method that incorporates low PAPR preamble and receiver channel estimate circuit

US8189697B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 1, 2008
Grant dateMay 29, 2012
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Expiry dateMar 30, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/2647
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A communications device includes a demapping and demodulation circuit that demaps and demodulates an OFDM communications signal as modulated subcarriers carrying communications data and modulated subcarriers carrying a training sequence forming a preamble that includes a long sync sequence for channel and frequency offset estimation having a extended guard interval (GI). The OFDM subcarriers carrying the training sequence have a quadratic modulation to produce a low peak-to-average power (PAPR) preamble with PAPR of approximately 2.6 decibels (dB). A channel estimate circuit is positioned to receive signals after processing within a FFT circuit and subcarrier demapper circuit and estimates the channel characteristics of the communications channel based on splitting the extended guard interval from the long sync sequence and processing into values that represent the low PAPR preamble as plus or minus one (+/−1) values in a real or imaginary component as adds and subtracts.

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