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Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2009
Applicants:

Philip V. Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);

Qinghe Du, College Station, TX (US);

Chunjie Duan, Medfield, MA (US);

Zafer Sahinoglu, Arlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Philip V. Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);

Qinghe Du, College Station, TX (US);

Chunjie Duan, Medfield, MA (US);

Zafer Sahinoglu, Arlington, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In an oversampled orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) orthogonal network, the preamble used for time synchronization does not have an ideal autocorrelation function due to guard bands, which degrade the accuracy of symbol timing. Therefore, a zero-correlation-zone (ZCZ) based preamble is used for time synchronization. Across correlation function (CCF) used for time synchronization is forced to 0 within a certain region around a main lobe. The length of the ZCZ is guaranteed to be larger than a cyclic prefix length of OFDM data symbols synchronization accuracy.


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