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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2008
Christopher D. Moffatt, Palm Bay, FL (US);
John E. Hoffmann, Indialantic, FL (US);
Christopher D. Moffatt, Palm Bay, FL (US);
John E. Hoffmann, Indialantic, FL (US);
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
A communications device includes a demapping and demodulation circuit that demaps and demodulates an OFDM communications signal as modulated subcarriers carrying communications data and modulated subcarriers carrying a training sequence forming a preamble that includes a long sync sequence for channel and frequency offset estimation having a extended guard interval (GI). The OFDM subcarriers carrying the training sequence have a quadratic modulation to produce a low peak-to-average power (PAPR) preamble with PAPR of approximately 2.6 decibels (dB). A channel estimate circuit is positioned to receive signals after processing within a FFT circuit and subcarrier demapper circuit and estimates the channel characteristics of the communications channel based on splitting the extended guard interval from the long sync sequence and processing into values that represent the low PAPR preamble as plus or minus one (+/−1) values in a real or imaginary component as adds and subtracts.