IEICE Trans - A Ternary Zero-Correlation Zone Sequence Set Having Wide Inter-Subset Zero-Correlation Zone

A Ternary Zero-Correlation Zone Sequence Set Having Wide Inter-Subset Zero-Correlation Zone

Takafumi HAYASHI  Takao MAEDA  Shinya MATSUFUJI  Satoshi OKAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E94-A    No.11    pp.2230-2235
Publication Date: 2011/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E94.A.2230
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Sequence
Keyword:
ternary sequence,  zero-correlation zone,  Hadamard matrix,  inter-subset correlation,  inter-cell,  mutually orthogonal complementary sets,

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Summary:
The present paper introduces a novel construction of ternary sequences having a zero-correlation zone. The cross-correlation function and the side-lobe of the auto-correlation function of the proposed sequence set is zero for the phase shifts within the zero-correlation zone. The proposed sequence set consists of more than one subset having the same member size. The correlation function of the sequences of a pair of different subsets, referred to as the inter-subset correlation function, has a wider zero-correlation zone than that of the correlation function of sequences of the same subset (intra-subset correlation function). The wide inter-subset zero-correlation enables performance improvement during application of the proposed sequence set. The proposed sequence set has a zero-correlation zone for periodic, aperiodic, and odd correlation functions.