A Timing Synchronization Method with Low-Volume DSP for OFDM Packet Transmission Systems

Ryota KIMURA  Ryuhei FUNADA  Hiroshi HARADA  Manabu SAWADA  Shoji SHINODA 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences  Vol.E88-A  No.7  pp.1912-1920
Publication Date: 2005/07/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
Category: Wireless Communication Technology
Keyword: 
OFDM,  timing synchronization,  packet transmission system,  DSP, 

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a simple timing synchronization method in order to design a timing synchronization circuit with low-complex and low-volume digital signal processing (DSP) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) packet transmission systems. The proposed method utilizes the subtraction process for acquirement of a timing metric of fast Fourier transform (FFT) window, whereas the conventional methods utilize the multiplication process. This paper adopts the proposed method to a standardized OFDM format, IEEE 802.11a, and elucidates that the proposed one shows good transmission performance as well as the conventional one in fast time-variant multi-path Rayleigh fading channels by computer simulation.