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Timing Synchronization with Channel Impulse Response in OFDM Systems

채널 임펄스 응답을 이용한 OFDM 시스템 시간 동기

  • Kang, Eun-Su (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Han, Dong-Seog (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
  • 강은수 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 한동석 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
  • Published : 2007.07.25
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Abstract

OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) is an effective modulation technique for high speed transmission over fading channels. However, it has a high bit error rate in the receiver if there is an error on frame synchronization because of phase rotation. A coherent OFDM system has to acquire exact timing synchronization of fraction and integer sampling positions. When a sampling offset exist the performance of a receiver will be degraded severely. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that acquires the fractional sampling offset in OFDM systems. This scheme compares the channel impulse responses with the early and late sampled signals having 0.5 sample offset from the estimated sampling positions by correlation with the received and training samples. Its performance is verified by computer simulations in multipath channels.

OFDM(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing)은 페이딩 환경에서 높은 전송율을 가지는 효율적인 전송 기법이다. 그러나 OFDM 프레임의 시작 시점을 정확히 찾지 못하면 주파수 영역에서 위상회전으로 인해 수신 데이터의 비트오율이 높아진다. 그러므로 코히어런트 OFDM 시스템에선 정수배의 샘플 옵셋뿐만 아니라 소수배의 샘플 옵셋까지 동기를 획득해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 코히어런트 OFDM 시스템에서 수신된 훈련 심볼의 상관관계를 이용하여 0.5 샘플 이전과 이후의 충격응답을 각각 구하고 이들의 차를 이용하여 소수배 샘플 동기를 획득하는 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안한 심볼 타이밍 동기 기법의 성능을 다중경로 채널과 잡음에 대한 모의실험을 통하여 검증한다.

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