A Delay Lock Loop for Mobile Communications in the Presence of Multipath Fading

Makoto TAKEUCHI
Akihiro KAJIWARA
Masao NAKAGAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E76-B    No.8    pp.1039-1046
Publication Date: 1993/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications)
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Keyword: 
mobile communications,  multipath fading channels,  Delay Lock Loop,  tracking,  

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Summary: 
In this paper we present a new tracking scheme using two tracking modes which are based on the concept of Delay Lock Loop (DLL). Under the multipath fading channels, a conventional DLL has problems of jitter performance degradation, lock-off and delay offset. It is necessary to solve these problems, because mobile communications have increased drastically. We propose the combination of a coarse tracking mode and a fine tracking mode. The former mode is employed for reducing the possibility of losing lock, the latter mode is used for suppressing the jitter of delay error and the delay offset in the presence of multipath fading. The both modes utilize the power of delay paths shown in the auto-correlation function of the received signal at the DLL. Computer simulation results show that our proposed scheme is extremely useful comparing with a conventional scheme over the multipath fading channels.