Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Sungkyunkwan University

Qualcomm Incorporated

Se Bin Im

Hyung Jin Choi

Jong Hyeon Park

Je Woo Kim

Je Hyuk Ryu

Hyun Suk Lee

Jin Yong Kang

Bon Young Koo

Jae Goon Aum

Jung Tae Kim

Kyung Doc Jang

Jung In Kim

Je Woo c/o Qualcomm Incorporated Kim

An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process signals in a communication system. A channel impulse response (CIR) generator generates a time-domain windowed CIR from a received signal using a window function. A thresholder thresholds the time-domain windowed CIR. A compensator compensates window effect for the thresholded time-domain windowed CIR to provide an enhanced channel estimate in frequency domain.

Enhanced channel estimation for communication system receiver

A frequency synchronization apparatus includes: a correlating unit that obtains a first correlation value by correlating a known reference guard interval of an OFDM symbol and a reference copy interval corresponding to the reference guard interval, and obtains a second correlation value by correlating the estimate guard interval and an estimate copy interval corresponding to the estimate guard interval; a determining unit that compares the first and second correlation values to determine a first case where the first correlation value is larger by a pre-set magnification than the second correlation value, a second case where the second correlation value is larger by a pre-set magnification than the first correlation value, and a third case which is not the first case nor the second case; and a frequency offset estimating unit that estimates a frequency offset by using a correlation value corresponding to any one of the first to third.

Frequency synchronization apparatus and method in OFDM system

An apparatus and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) channel equalization are disclosed. The apparatus includes a compensation value setting unit setting a compensation value in the form of a diagonal matrix by use of a diagonal matrix of diagonal elements extracted from a channel matrix of an OFDM receiver, and a preset divergence suppression value, an initial estimation value calculation unit calculating an initial estimate value by use of a fast Fourier transform (FFT)-processed signal of the OFDM receiver and the compensation value, an equalization unit detecting a transmission signal to be processed by use of the compensation value, the channel matrix and the diagonal matrix, and a symbol decision unit determining a symbol for an adjacent signal of a transmission signal, which is to be processed among a plurality of signals output from the equalization unit, and providing the symbol-determined adjacent signal to the equalization unit.

Apparatus and method for OFDM channel equalization

Provided is an apparatus for estimating a delay spread of a multi-path fading channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The apparatus is applied to an OFDM receiver including a channel equalization unit compensating channel distortion by estimating channel distortion at pilot locations with respect to output signals of an FFT unit.

Apparatus and method for estimating delay spread of multi-path fading channel in OFDM system

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