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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2008
Hyeong Sook Park, Daejeon, KR;
Jun-woo Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Eon Young Hong, Daejeon, KR;
Youn OK Park, Daejeon, KR;
Hyeong Sook Park, Daejeon, KR;
Jun-Woo Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Eon Young Hong, Daejeon, KR;
Youn Ok Park, Daejeon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates an apparatus and method of estimating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a received signal when the received signal has a timing offset. An apparatus for estimating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a fast Fourier transform (FFT) unit that performs a fast Fourier transform on a received signal to convert the received signal into a frequency domain signal; a preamble selector that extracts a preamble from the frequency domain signal; a correlator that correlates the preamble to a preamble reference signal generated by a receiver to calculate a correlation value; an entire power estimator that calculates entire power; a noise power estimator that applies a differential demodulation method to the correlation value to remove a timing offset and calculate noise power; and an estimating unit that uses the entire power and the noise power to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).