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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2011
Nanda Kishore Chavali, Hyderabad, IN;
Venkata Krishna Reddy Pilli, Andhara Pradesh, IN;
Nanda Kishore Chavali, Hyderabad, IN;
Venkata Krishna Reddy Pilli, Andhara Pradesh, IN;
Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd, , IN;
Abstract
A method of estimating a symbol boundary for adaptive time synchronization in a communication system is presented. An embodiment of the method includes receiving a signal comprising a plurality of OFDM symbols from receiver chains. The OFDM symbols include at least a long training field (LTF) symbol. The method further includes determining a normalized correlation signal based on correlation between the received LTF symbol and a reference symbol for each of the receiver chains for different lags. Also, the method includes estimating an energy window length for the normalized correlation signal. The energy window length includes at least one of channel delay spread and a maximum cyclic shift applied to the signal. The method then includes estimating the symbol boundary associated with the received LTF symbol based on a position of peak energy of the normalized correlation signal using the estimated energy window length.