A novel synchronization scheme for relay-assisted cooperative communication systems

Author

Zhang, Zhipeng ; Zhong, Jie ; Zhao, Minjian ; Cai, Yunlong ; Wu, Jie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

35

Abstract

This paper presents a novel synchronization scheme for relay-assisted cooperative communication systems. According to the proposed scheme, the source node transmits a self-symmetric preamble. Taking advantage of this structure, the relay nodes carry out simple yet robust timing synchronization in the presence of large carrier frequency offset (CFO). Each relay node multiplies the received preamble by different frequency rotation function before retransmission. The destination node carries out the novel synchronization algorithm in both time domain and frequency domain at the same time. When the preamble from a certain relay arrives, a sharp peak will emerge in the spectrum of the matching sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides very good timing synchronization performance in the presence of multiple CFOs, and also provides accurate estimation of multiple CFOs.

Keywords

cooperative communication; frequency-domain analysis; pattern matching; synchronisation; time-domain analysis; frequency domain analysis; frequency rotation function; large carrier frequency offset; matching sequence spectrum; multiple CFO estimation; relay-assisted cooperative communication system; robust timing synchronization; self-symmetric preamble; source node transmission; synchronization scheme; time domain analysis; timing synchronization performance; Broadcasting; Cooperative systems; Estimation; Frequency domain analysis; Relays; Synchronization; Relay based scenario; cooperative systems; self-symmetric preamble; timing and frequency synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology (ICCT), 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jinan

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-306-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2011.6157827

Filename

6157827