403 results about "Symbol synchronization" patented technology

A cell search apparatus and method in an OFDM mobile communication system are provided. In the cell search apparatus, a symbol synchronization acquirer acquires OFDM symbol synchronization by performing CP correlation for a plurality of OFDM symbol intervals. A frame cell synchronization acquirer sorts received OFDM symbols according to the acquired OFDM symbol synchronization, and acquires frame cell synchronization by performing preamble correlation for a plurality of frame cell intervals. A pilot pattern detector sorts received frame cells according to the acquired frame cell synchronization, and detects a pilot pattern for identifying a base station by monitoring a plurality of frame cells.

In an OFDMA-based cellular system, a frame of a downlink signal includes a common slot and traffic slots. The common slot includes a synchronization preamble and a cell search preamble. The synchronization preamble has a structure for synchronizing time and frequency, and the cell search preamble has a cell search structure. The traffic slot includes pilot symbols provided on the time and frequency axes. A cyclic prefix is used to estimate initial symbol synchronization, and the initial symbol synchronization and the synchronization preamble are used to synchronize the frame. The synchronization frame and the cell search preamble are used to estimate time and frequency synchronization. The cell search preamble is used to search cells. When the initial synchronization is performed, the cyclic prefix is used to track the frequency, the synchronization preamble is used to track symbol synchronization, and the cell search preamble is used to track fine frequency synchronization.

A modem, or a communication system, in its transmission section, has signal-formatting circuitry followed by circuitry for insertion of a sequence of pilot symbols into a sequence of data symbols outputted by the formatting circuitry. Placement of the insertion circuitry after the formatting circuitry permits a variety of formatting options without effecting the sequence of pilot symbols that serves as a time reference useful in detection of a signal transmitted by the modem. The reception section of the modem is equipped correspondingly to process a received composite signal of data symbols having a prescribed format and a sequence of pilot symbols. The reception section extracts the sequence of pilot symbols from the composite signal, and employs the pilot symbols to develop a time base for operation of circuitry for decoding the format of the received composite signal to extract data from the composite signal.

A method and an apparatus relating to an OFDM data communications system where the sub-carriers are modulated using differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK). The multi-carrier transmitted signal is directly generated by means of summation of pre-computed sample points. As part of the multi-carrier signal generation, a signal for the guard interval is established. In an acoustic application of this approach, direct radiation of the sub-carrier approach is facilitated. Symbol synchronization in the receiver is based on signal correlation with the missed sub-carrier. Separation of the sub-carriers in the receiver by means of correlation of the received signal and reference signals that are derived from a table of pre-computed values. Optimal non-coherent processing of the sub-carriers without any phase tracking procedures is achieved.

A rectangular-to-polar-converter receives a complex input signal (having X₀ and Y₀ components) and determines an angle φ that represents the position of the complex signal in the complex plane. The rectangular-to polar-converter determines a coarse angle φ₁ and a fine angle φ₂, where φ=φ₁+φ₂. The coarse angle φ₁ is obtained using a small arctangent table and a reciprocal table. These tables provide just enough precision such that the remaining fine angle φ₂ is small enough to approximately equal its tangent value. Therefore the fine angle φ₂ can be obtained without a look-up table, and the fine angle computations are consolidated into a few small multipliers, given a precision requirement. Applications of the rectangular-to-polar converter include symbol and carrier synchronization, including symbol synchronization for bursty transmissions of packet data systems. Other applications include any application requiring the rectangular-to-polar conversion of a complex input signal.

The invention discloses a joint estimation method for synchronizing frames, frequencies and fine symbols for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The method comprises the following steps: carrying out autocorrelation operations of small point length and big point length on base band data sequences at the receiving terminal in parallel; jointly determining the frame synchronization position in real time and in parallel according to the small point autocorrelation peak and the big point autocorrelation peak; computing integer frequency offset coarse estimation value and decimal fraction frequency offset coarse estimation value according to the small point autocorrelation peak and the big point autocorrelation peak; estimating the final frequency offset detection value from the integer frequency offset coarse estimation value and the decimal fraction frequency offset coarse estimation value with a frequency offset dereferencing decision device; carrying out frequency offset correction on the base band data sequences according to the estimated final frequency offset detection value; and carrying out cross-correlation on the corrected base band data sequences and the local data sequences and determining the accurate fine symbol synchronization position through the cross-correlation peak. The contradiction of complex system measure function hardware design in the traditional time-domain joint estimation systems is solved by using the method.

The invention discloses a multi-carrier synchronizing system and a multi-carrier synchronizing method which are applied to an OFDM multi-carrier system. The multi-carrier synchronizing system comprises a symbol synchronizing module and a frame synchronizing module, wherein the symbol synchronizing module carries out related calculation on a received sequence and a local sequence and determines the symbol synchronizing position by detecting the related peak value of a continuous symbol window, the frame synchronizing module calculates the cumulative sum of the differentials between a phase of a current symbol and an average phase of former symbols, compares the cumulative sum with a preset judgment threshold and finds out the frame synchronizing position after judgment. The multi-carrier synchronizing method comprises the steps of carrying out related calculation on received signals and the local sequence after average filtering is carried out on the received signals, determining the symbol synchronizing position by detecting the related peak value of the continuous window, and judging whether frames are synchronized by calculating the phase differential of two continuous symbols according to the symbol synchronizing position. Compared with the existing synchronizing technology, the multi-carrier synchronizing system and the multi-carrier synchronizing method have the advantages of being low in complexity, high in accuracy and capable of being achieved easily through hardware.

The invention discloses a GFSK baseband digital receiver and a baseband synchronization and demodulation method of the GFSK baseband digital receiver. The receiver comprises a phase difference detection module, a frequency shift estimation module, a frequency shift compensation module, a matched filtering module, a direct current component estimation and removing module, a selector and a synchronization and demodulation module. According to the receiver and the method, DFT operation of a specific frequency point is carried out on code element envelope signals output through phase difference detection; whether there are leader sequence signals or not is judged; moreover a corresponding frequency shift is calculated; frequency compensation and matched filtering are carried out on follow-up baseband signals; code element envelope is output through difference detection; and at this time, the direct current component estimation and removing module and the synchronization and demodulation module of the backward stage start working. The receiver is equipped with a frequency shift estimation and compensation circuit, thus improving the performance of the receiver; signal demodulation and code element judgment are carried out in a phase domain; the symbol synchronization and sampling clock synchronization of the receiver are realized based on a counter; and the receiver is simple and reliable in structure and can adapt to various different data rates.

In an OFDM receiver, a synchronisation pulse for defining a Fast Fourier Transform window is generated by examining the output of a correlator to find a sub-interval within which there is maximum correlation between samples of the symbol separated by the length of the useful part of the symbol. The synchronisation pulse is generated during this sub-interval (102). Adjustments to the timing of the synchronisation pulse are made only if the current error is significant and persistent. A signal representing the amount of adjustment is used to determine phase rotations applied to the output of the FFT circuit.

One aspect provides an optical communication system. The system includes an optical-to-digital converter, a frequency estimator and a symbol synchronizer. The optical-to-digital converter is configured to receive an optical OFDM bit stream including an OFDM symbol bearing payload data and a symbol header preceding the OFDM payload data. The frequency estimator is configured to determine a carrier frequency offset of the payload data from the symbol header. The symbol synchronizer is configured to determine a starting location of the payload data within the bit stream by cross-correlating a synchronization pattern within the symbol header with a model synchronization pattern stored by the symbol synchronizer.

A synchronization apparatus and method for an OFDM system includes four portions: delay conjugate multiplication, phase processing, delay moving sum and minimum value detection. The invention performs the correlation phase operation and finds out the location of abnormal change for the phase difference of the output signal. The location is used for the reference of symbol synchronization. It overcomes the problems of incorrect judge about synchronization location due to the channel fading or noise. The invention can be applied to wire/wireless communications or digital video broadcasting-terrestrial systems, specialized in symbol synchronization at a receiving end.

A signal reception device is disclosed that is capable of detecting symbol synchronization timing with high precision in accordance with a condition of a propagation path even in an environment involving multi-path interference. The signal reception device adopts an OFCDM transmission scheme or a multi-carrier transmission scheme. The signal reception device includes a received signal information calculation unit to calculate received signal information representing a signal reception condition of a received signal; an output combination unit to combine correlation values in a predetermined section obtained by correlation detection based on the received signal information; and a symbol timing detection unit to detect a symbol synchronization timing based on the combined value.

A communication system and method is disclosed that performs symbol boundary synchronization by generating a symbol alignment estimate from a partial signal correlation; and then refining the symbol alignment estimate via a carrier phase calculation. To generate the symbol alignment estimate, two methods are disclosed. After an estimate is determined, an embodiment provides for refining the symbol alignment estimate via a carrier phase calculation by determining a carrier phase of two adjacent carriers, determining a phase error as directly proportional to an offset from the start of a symbol, determining a phase difference contribution due to a communication channel and device hardware, and counter-rotating the determined carrier phase by an angle of a constellation point at a transmitter.

An apparatus for detecting symbol synchronization in a received signal including a first preamble and a second preamble which is consecutive to the first preamble, the apparatus including a first correlator calculating a first correlation value between the received signal and a first pattern of a first period among iterative patterns of the first preamble, a second correlator calculating a second correlation value between the received signal and a second pattern of a second period among iterative patterns of the second preamble, a third correlator calculating a third correlation value between the first correlation value and the second correlation value, and a detector detecting symbol synchronization from the third correlation value.

A mutually-operated emitting and receiving system of microwave is prepared as forming emission system by randomization module, channel coding module, interlacing module, modulation module, setting-frame module, IFFT conversion module, adding circulation prefix module, parallel/series conversion module, etc; forming receiving system by sampling-positioning module, A/D conversion module, symbol synchronization module, de-circulation prefix module, FFT conversion module, de-framing module, channel estimation module, balance module, decoding module, derandomization module, etc.

The circuit includes local reference conjugate sequencer, delayed conjugate correlator, selecting merger unit. Local reference conjugate sequencer stores conjugate values of local reference sequence samples in different time delays. Multiplication is carried out between the said conjugate values and OFDM data sequence received respectively. Delayed conjugate correlator delays the multiplied result. After taking conjugate operated result of previous step, Multiplication is carried out between the multiplied result and the delayed multiplied result. The result of multiplication in twice is accumulated and square summation is carried out. Selective merger is carried out for output values of multiple delayed conjugate correlators. Peak detection is carried out in order to select maximum. The position of the peas value is synchronous position. Before frequency synchronism and symbol synchronization, the circuit can find position of OFDM frame precisely without inference from frequency deviation and sampling clock.