• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.223-225
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• 2012

In this paper, we develop a symbol/frame time and carrier frequency synchronization scheme for multi-carrier signaling in wireless mobile channels. The proposed scheme achieves simultaneous time synchronization and carrier frequency offset estimation. Simulation results show that the frequency offset of multiple sub-carrier spacings can be estimated and that performance is improved with robustness regardless of the cyclic prefix length.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.187-190
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• 1998

In this paper, a synchronization method of OFDM signals are introduced and its performance is estimated. A proposed method can perform a frame/symbol timing, carrier frequency synchronizations. Reference symbols consist of two duplicate OFDM symbols carrying signals on every sub-carriers. Performances of synchronization under 60GHz millimeter-wave indoor channels are evaluated, which were measured with frequency-sweeping method in common office buildings. A proposed method has improved performances owing to long averaging durations of synchronization metrics in frame/symbol timing, carrier frequency synchronization procedures.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.601-617
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• 2014

In digital radio broadcasting systems, long delays are incurred in service start time when tuning to a particular frequency because several synchronization steps, such as symbol timing synchronization, frame synchronization, and carrier frequency offset and sampling frequency offset compensation are necessary. Therefore, the operation of the synchronization blocks causes delays ranging from several hundred milliseconds to a few seconds until the start of the radio service after frequency tuning. Furthermore, if spectrum inversed signals are transmitted in digital radio broadcasting systems, the receivers are unable to decode them, even though most receivers can demodulate the spectral inversed signals in analog radio broadcasting systems. Accordingly, fast synchronization techniques and a method for spectral inversion detection are required in digital radio broadcasting systems that are to replace the analog radio systems. This paper presents a joint detection method of frame, integer carrier frequency offset, and spectrum inversion for DRM Plus digital broadcasting systems. The proposed scheme can detect the frame and determine whether the signal is normal or spectral inversed without any carrier frequency offset and sampling frequency offset compensation, enabling fast frame synchronization. The proposed method shows outstanding performance in environments where symbol timing offsets and sampling frequency offsets exist.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권6C호
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• pp.516-522
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 중국향 휴대이동방송인 CMMB(China multimedia mobile broadcasting)를 위한 소수배 주파수 동기와 정수배 주파수 오차 추정 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안한 소수배 주파수 동기 알고리듬은 CMMB의 프레임 구조에 가장 적합하도록 전치부호를 활용하여 매 CMMB 심볼마다 추정이 가능하다. 또한 제안된 정수배 주파수 알고리듬은 CMMB 동기 신호를 이용하여 매 프레임마다 추정 한다. 제안 알고리듬은 시간 오프셋이 존재할 때에도 소수배와 정수배 주파수 오프셋을 정확히 추정할 수 있으며 다중 경로 상황에서도 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1043-1048
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• 2011

In this paper, a newsynchronization technique applied to burst-mode communication is proposed. A synchronization technique is to estimate carrier frequency and phase offsets in a noisy channel environment. A fundamental problem for estimating the parameters(carrier phase and frequency offsets) in burst-mode transmission is that the ways of pursuing estimation accuracy and transmission efficiency are always trade-off. To solve this problem, a new carrier recovery technique is proposed to improve the transmission efficiency with reliable performance especially at low S/N. In the proposed technique, the synchronization parameters are first estimated based on a data-aided feed-forward estimation scheme. Then, a phase tracker using decision-directed DPLL estimates the phase offset for the data portion of the burst data. From simulation results, it shows fast synchronization with shorter preamble maintaining reasonable BER performance at low S/N.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37B권11호
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• pp.1022-1032
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 OFDMA 기반의 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 다수의 노드 간 발생하게 되는 주파수 비동기 문제를 해결하기 위해 생체모방 알고리즘(bio-inspired algorithm)을 이용하여 인접 노드 간 지역적인 주파수 동기화를 통해 메쉬 네트워크 전체를 하나의 주파수로 수렴시켜 나가는 분산 주파수 동기화 방식을 제안한다. 메쉬 네트워크의 주파수 수렴 특성은 네트워크의 규모와 구성 노드들의 배치에 따라 서로 다르기 때문에 특정 토폴로지의 경우 주파수 수렴을 위해 많은 시간이 소요될 수 있다. 제안하는 기법은 가중치 적용을 통하여 메쉬 토폴로지 형태에 크게 의존하지 않는 빠른 주파수 동기화를 이룰 수 있음을 확인한다.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2001년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.11 No.1
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• pp.44-48
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• 2001

In this paper we describe the design of symbol timing and carrier synchronization algorithms for burst receiver. The demodulator consists of digital down converter, matched filter and synchronization circuits. For symbol timing recovery we use modified Gardner algorithm. And we use decision directed method for carrier phase recovery. For the sake of performance analysis, we compare simulation results with the board implemented by FPGA which is APEX20KE series chip for Alter. The performance results show it works quite well up to the condition that a frequency offset equal to 0.1% of symbol rate.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.452-459
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• 2015

Three synchronization issues, i.e., phase, frequency, and symbol time, have to be properly controlled to achieve distributed beamforming gain. In this paper, the impacts of synchronization errors in distributed beamforming are analyzed for both single-carrier and OFDM systems. When the channel is constant over a symbol duration, the performance degradation due to phase offset is the same for both single-carrier and OFDM systems. For symbol timing offset in OFDM systems, high frequency subcarriers are more susceptible as compared to low frequency ones. Frequency offset is critical in OFDM systems since it leads to interference from the other subcarriers as well as power loss in the desired signal.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.112-122
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• 2004

A nonlinear spectral-line method utilizing the fourth absolute moment of the receiver discrete Fourier transform output is proposed as a non-data-aided fine carrier frequency synchronization algorithm for OFDM receivers. A simple modification of the algorithm resulting in low implementation complexity is also developed. Analytic expressions are derived for the steady-state frequency error variances of the algorithms and verified to be very accurate via computer simulations over AWGN and frequency selective multipath channels. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms provide reliable and excellent steady-state performance, especially with PSK modulation. Also, the proposed algorithms are insensitive to symbol timing offsets, only requiring a coarse symbol timing recovery.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2010

본 논문은 MB-OFDM UWB 시스템에서 양자화 잡음의 영향에 의해 저하된 초기 반송파 주파수 오프셋 추정의 정확도를 향상시키는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 일반적인 OFDM 시스템에서 반복적으로 이웃하는 프리엠블 심볼들이 초기 반송파 주파수 동기에 사용되지만, 수신부 A/D 변환기에서 발생한 양자화 잡음의 영향에 의해 주파수 오프셋 추정의 성능은 제한된다. 본 논문에서는 초기 주파수 동기를 위해 이웃하는 한 심볼 간격의 프리엠블 심볼을 사용하는 일반적 방식을 위상 모호성 (phase ambiguity)이 발생하지 않는 범위 안에서 바로 이웃하지 않는 다중 심볼 간격의 프리엠블 심볼에 기반한 방식으로 확장하여 초기 주파수 오프셋 추정의 성능을 향상시키는 다중 심볼 간격 추정 알고리즘이 제안된다. 또한 본 논문은 3-대역 도약 (hopping)하는 최대 30 개의 프리엠블 심볼이 4-비트 A/D 변환기를 통해 입력될 때 최적의 다중 심볼 간격이 '6'임을 구하여 제시한다. MB-OFDM UWB 시스템용 채널 환경에서의 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안된 다중 심볼 간격 추정 방식은 5 ppm 미만의 정확도로 초기 주파수 오프셋을 추정할 수 있음을 확인하였다.