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Coarse timing

US9787517B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 1, 2013
Grant dateOct 10, 2017
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Expiry dateApr 1, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/2671
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A coarse timing method for a communication system is provided. The coarse timing method may include: calculating timing metric values for received signal samples using a self-correlation based timing metric function; calculating average timing metric values based on previous timing metric values; and determining whether there is a data frame based on the timing metric values and the average timing metric values.

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