The present invention relates, inter alia, to a method for compensating a
systematic error in symbol
clock synchronization between a
transmitter (10) and a
receiver (20), the method comprising: a step for receiving a first
signal (S1) in the
receiver (20), a step for determining an estimated
initial phase offset (POFF1) between a symbol
clock of the
transmitter (10) and a symbol
clock of the
receiver (20) using the first
signal (S1), a step for initializing a symbol
synchronizer (40) of the receiver (20) based on the estimated
initial phase offset (POFF1), a step for receiving a second
signal (S2) in the receiver (20), a step for determining and storing a plurality of
phase offset values (µ(n)) based on a plurality of sample values representing the second signal, by means of the initialized symbol
synchronizer,a step for determining an approximated
initial phase offset of the symbol clocks based on an approximation over the plurality of stored
phase offset values (µ(n)), a step for determining a compensation value representing a difference between the approximated initial
phase offset (POFF2) and a phase offset based on the estimated initial phase offset (POFF1), and a step for calculating the compensation value (COMP) with a subsequently determined estimated initial phase offset.