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Design of a computationally efficient frame synchronization scheme for wireless LAN systems

무선랜 시스템을 위한 계산이 간단한 초기 동기부 설계

  • Received : 2012.08.31
  • Published : 2012.12.25

Abstract

Synchronization including timing recovery, frequency offset compensation, and frame synchronization is most important signal processing block in all wireless/wired communication systems. In most communication systems, synchronization schemes based on training sequences or preambles are used. WLAN standards of 802.11a/g/n released by IEEE are based on OFDM systems. OFDM systems are known to be much more sensitive to frequency and timing synchronization errors than single carrier systems. A loss of orthogonality between the multiplexed subcarriers can result in severe performance degradations. The starting position of the frame and the beginning of the symbol and training symbol can be estimated using correlation methods. Correlation processing functionality is usually complex because of large number of multipliers in implementation especially when the reference signal is non-binary. In this paper, a simple correlation based synchronization scheme is proposed for IEEE 802.11a/g/n systems. Existing property of a periodicity in the training symbols are exploited. Simulation and implementation results show that the proposed method has much smaller complexity without any performance degradation than the existing schemes.

주파수 옵셋 보상, 프레임 동기화, Timing Recovery를 포함하는 동기화는 모든 유/무선 통신 시스템에서 가장 중요한 신호 처리 블록이다. 대부분의 통신 시스템에서는 Training sequences 또는 프리앰블을 기반으로하는 동기화 방법이 사용된다. IEEE에서 제정한 802.11a/g/n의 무선랜 표준은 OFDM 시스템을 기반으로 한다. OFDM 시스템은 주파수와 타이밍 동기화 에러에 대해서 싱클캐리어 시스템보다 더 민감한 것으로 알려져 있다. 프레임의 시작점과 OFDM 심볼 및 훈련심볼의 시작점은 상관관계를 이용하여 추정될 수 있다. 상관관계를 처리 기능을 하는 블록은 일반적으로 많은 수의 곱셈기로 인하여 큰 복잡도를 갖게 된다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11a/g/n 시스템을 위한 훈련심볼 내의 심볼값이 반복되는 특성을 활용한 복잡도가 현저히 낮은 동기화 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션과 구현결과 제안된 기법이 기존의 방법보다 성능저하는 없는 반면 훨씬 적은 복잡도를 갖는 결과를 보여준다.

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