Accurate frame synchronization for IEEE 802.16d system

Author

Huang, Shan ; He, Jiaming ; Zeng, Xingbin ; Li, Jiashu

Author_Institution

Commun. Technol. Inst., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo, China

fYear

2009

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Utilizing the characteristic of IEEE 802.16d downlink frame´s format, this paper proposed a modified frame synchronization method, which can achieve a better frame synchronization. The first OFDM training symbol in long preamble is used for rough synchronization, and the second OFDM training symbol in long preamble is used for fine synchronization. Due to symbol repetition in long preamble, autocorrelation and cross correlation were used to estimate timing offset. A pseudo-random weight factor was used to perturb the relativity of the second symbol in OFDM long preamble. Simulation shows that the proposed method has a better performance of frame synchronization than that of other methods.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; WiMax; correlation methods; synchronisation; IEEE 802.16d downlink frame formate; OFDM long preamble; OFDM training symbol; autocorrelation; cross correlation; frame synchronization method; pseudo-random weight factor; symbol repetition; timing offset estimation; Autocorrelation; Downlink; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency estimation; Frequency synchronization; Multipath channels; OFDM; Protocols; Robustness; Timing; autocorrelation; frame synchronization; pseudo-random factor; timing offset estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, 2009. WCSP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4856-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5668-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSP.2009.5371458

Filename

5371458