The Modified CP-AFC with Multi-Stage Tracking Mode for WCDMA Reverse Link Receiver

Joo-Hyun DO  Young-Yong LEE  Hyung-Jin CHOI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E86-A    No.6    pp.1397-1404
Publication Date: 2003/06/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from 2002 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2002))
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WCDMA,  frequency synchronization,  base station modem,  CP-AFC,  multi-stage tracking,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose a modified CP-AFC (Cross-Product Automatic Frequency Control) algorithm to enhance coherent signal detection for WCDMA reverse link receiver. We introduce a moving average filter at the FDD input to decrease the noise effect by increasing the number of cross-products, since pilot symbol in WCDMA is not transmitted continuously. We also add normalization algorithm to overcome the conventional CP-FDD's sensitivity to the variance of input signal amplitude and to increase the linear range of S-curve. For rapid frequency acquisition and tracking, we adopt a multi-stage tracking mode. We applied the proposed algorithm in the implementation of WCDMA base station modem successfully.