Title (en)

Symbol timing for MIMO OFDM and other wireless communication systems

Title (de)
Symboltaktung für MIMO OFDM und andere drahtlose Vermittlungssysteme

Title (fr)
Synchronisation de symboles pour MDFO à plusieurs entrées et sorties et pour autres systèmes de communications hertziennes

Publication
EP 1424821 A2 20040602 (EN)

Application
EP 03256876 A 20031030

Priority
  • US 42908102 P 20021126
  • US 64470203 A 20030820

Abstract (en)
Symbol timing for a wireless communication system, such as a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
(OFDM) wireless LAN system, is determined by summing the powers for an appropriate set of channel impulse responses, integrating this power
summation over an appropriate window (e.g., equivalent to the guard interval), and identifying the time at which the maximum integration occurs.
Depending on the implementation, symbol timing can be determined for each receiver branch individually or for all receiver branches jointly. In either
case, the determined symbol timing(s) can minimize the amount of inter-symbol and inter-channel interferences that are invoked in the system.

Inventor
  • KRIEDTE KAI ROLAND (NL)
  • SCHENK TIM (NL)
  • VAN ZEIST ALLERT (NL)

Applicant
AGERE SYSTEMS INC (US)

IPC 1-7 (main, further and additional classification)

H04L 27/26

IPC 8 full level (invention and additional information)

H04J 99/00  (2009.01); H04L 27/26  (2006.01); H04J 11/00  (2006.01); H04L 1/06  (2006.01); H04L 5/02  (2006.01); H04L 7/02  (2006.01)

CPC (invention and additional information)

H04L 27/2662 (2013.01); H04L 1/06 (2013.01); H04L 27/2695 (2013.01); H04L 5/023 (2013.01); H04L 7/0054 (2013.01); H04L 7/041 (2013.01)

Citation (applicant)
• T.M. SCHMIDL; D.C. COX: "Robust Frequency and Timing Synchronization for OFDM", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 45, no. 12, December 1997 (1997-12-01), pages 1613 - 1621, XP011009085
• P.H. MOOSE: "A Technique for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Frequency Offset Correction", IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 42, no. 10, October 1994 (1994-10-01), pages 2908 - 2914, XP002019915, DOI:
doi:10.1109/26.328961
• AN. MODY; G.L. STTIBER: "Synchronization for MIMO OFDM Systems", IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, vol.
1, November 2001 (2001-11-01), pages 509 - 513, XP001090307, DOI: doi:10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965169

Cited by
WO2008133567A1; US8165234B2; WO2016000383A1; WO2009059672A1; US8913563B2; EP2037619A4; US8102754B2; US9749124B2;
GB2525459A; GB2525459B

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EP 1424821 A2 20040602; EP 1424821 A3 20061122; EP 1424821 B1 20090408; DE 60327033 D1 20090520; JP 2004180313 A 20040624; JP
4336190 B2 20090930; US 2004100939 A1 20040527; US 7254196 B2 20070807

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