Receiver

• US 20030012270A1
• Filed: 06/05/2002
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daita Frontier Fund LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Daita Frontier Fund LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Chen, Xiao Yuan, Suzuki, Kunihiko, Zhou, Changming
• Application Number:
  US10/149,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20030012270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/150
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7073 Synchronisation aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7095 Sliding correlator type

Abstract

A 3-step cell search type receiver apparatus with an improved accuracy is provided. The receiver apparatus comprises a matched filter MF and sliding correlator unit SC to which a reception signal Sin is inputted. The matched filter MF computes correlation between the reception signal Sin and a primary synchronization code PSC and produces an output Spsc, which is retained in a memory MEM1 and then processed by a timing detection unit TDP. The sliding correlator unit SC comprises a plurality of sliding correlators SC1 to SCq, whose outputs A [1] to A [q] are retained in a memory MEM2 and then processed by a timing group identification unit TGI. The sliding correlator unit SC computes correlation based on the primary and secondary synchronization codes or the secondary synchronization code. In the former case, inphase-addition is performed after performing channel estimation and phase correction, and in the latter case, only inphase-correction is performed.

Claims

1. A receiver apparatus comprising:

a first correlation means for computing correlation between a primary synchronization code common to a plurality of base stations and a reception signal; and

a slot identification means for identifying slot synchronization by inphase-adding the result of correlation over a plurality of adjacent slots at slot intervals and calculating power.

2. A receiver apparatus comprising:

a second correlation means for computing correlation between a secondary synchronization code comprising a plurality of codes for identifying a scrambling code group and a reception signal for each slot in synchronization with identified slot synchronization; and

a first frame identification means for identifying frame synchronization and a scrambling code group by inphase-adding the result of correlation for each slot and calculating power.

3. A receiver apparatus comprising:

a first correlation means for computing correlation between a primary synchronization code common to a plurality of base stations and a reception signal;

a second correlation means for computing correlation between a secondary synchronization code comprising a plurality of codes for identifying a scrambling code group and the reception signal for each slot in synchronization with the slot synchronization identified by the first correlation means; and

a second frame identification means for identifying frame synchronization and a scrambling code group by performing channel estimation and phase correction based on the result of correlation by the first correlation means and the result of correlation by the second correlation means, inphase-adding the phase-corrected correlation result for each slot, and calculating power.

4. A receiver apparatus comprising:

a second correlation means for computing correlation between a secondary synchronization code comprising a plurality of codes for identifying a scrambling code group and a reception signal for each slot in synchronization with identified slot synchronization; and

a third frame identification means for identifying frame synchronization and a scrambling code group by performing channel estimation and phase correction based on the result of correlation, inphase-adding the phase-corrected correlation result for each slot, and calculating power.

5. A receiver apparatus comprising:

a second correlation means for computing correlation between a secondary synchronization code comprising a plurality of codes for identifying a scrambling code group and a reception signal for each slot in synchronization with identified slot synchronization; and

a fourth frame identification means for identifying frame synchronization and a scrambling code group by generating a matrix of the number of codes in the secondary synchronization code times the number of slots in a single frame as a result of correlation, and adding together elements of the matrix for each known combination pattern representing each scrambling code group.

6. A receiver apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the fourth frame identification means identifies frame synchronization and the scrambling code group by inphase-adding the elements in adjacent slots in the matrix and calculating power.

7. A receiver apparatus comprising:

a third correlation means for computing correlation between a scrambling code of an identified scrambling code group and a reception signal at identified frame synchronization; and

a scrambling code identification means for identifying a scrambling code group by inphase-adding the result of correlation over a plurality of symbols and calculating power.

8. A receiver apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the scrambling code identification means identifies the scrambling code by, in an initial cell search, calculating power based on the result of correlation and adding the power over a plurality of symbols, and by, in a periphery cell search, inphase-adding the result of correlation over a plurality of symbols and calculating power.