Synchronization for VDSL system using DMT

DMT 방식을 이용한 VDSL시스템의 동기

  • 최병익 (한국전산원 국가정보화센터) ;
  • 우정수 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과통신연구실) ;
  • 임기홍 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과통신연구실)
  • Published : 2002.10.01

Abstract

A DMT transceiver recovers the sampling time from reserved sub-carriers, the pilots. Since the pilots are available after the FFT, the symbol synchronization must be done before sample synchronization. In DMT VDSL system, symbol synchronization is handled separately from sample synchronization, although the two processes are intimately related. The DMT symbol itself contains sufficient information, the cyclic extension, for symbol synchronization. Using only the sign bit of received signal, the Maximum Likelihood Estimation solution is derived. The Tx windowing in the transmitter of DMT VDSL system results in the blurring of MLE peaks. We propose the weighted summing MLE method using the sign bit which produces the clearly sharp top of MLE peaks. The stability of symbol synchronization is improved significantly by averaging over a few symbols. This paper presents the study of the original MLE and the weighted summing MLE using sign bit. A clock difference between transmitter and receiver destroys the oahogonality of the carriers. Therefore, a receiver using asynchronous sampling must perform timing correction in the discrete-time domain. We introduce an efficient digital sample synchronization method which is based on temporal and frequency domain digital signal processing.

DMT 방식의 송·수신기는 파일롯 채널의 페이즈 정보를 이용하여 샘플동기를 맞추게 된다. 파일롯 채널의 페이즈 값은 심볼 단위로 행해지는 FFT 결과에서 구할 수 있으므로, 심볼동기를 샘플동기 이전에 맞추어 주어야 한다. DMT VDSL시스템의 경우, 심볼 내의 반복되는 구간사이의 상관성을 통해서 심볼동기를 구할 수 있게 된다. 수신신호의 부호를 기본으로한 최우도 추정함수를 사용하여 심볼동기를 구하는 기법에 대해 제안하였으며, Tx 윈도우에 의해, 심볼동기의 추정값이 잡음에 민감해지는 것을 막기위해 가중합을 적용한 추정 방법을 제안하였다. 송·수신기 사이에 샘플링 클럭 옵셋이 존재할 경우, 샘플동기를 위해 디지털 영역에서 샘플링 클럭 옵셋을 보정해주는 기법을 제안하였다.

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