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SYNCHRONIZATION FOR FH COMMUNICATION

  • US 20090135887A1
  • Filed: 11/20/2008
  • Published: 05/28/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for synchronization of transmitted and received signals in frequency hopping communication systems where data is transmitted in frames comprising a preamble and a data block, the frequency hopping communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, two PN-generators, one located at a transmitting end and one located at a receiving end, both generating a same predefined frequency pattern causing the transmitter and the receiver to hop in frequency according to the same pattern, the receiver and the PN-generator at the receiving end being part also of a synchronization unit wherein the clock rate in the receiver is slowed down compared to the clock rate of the transmitter, thus causing a characteristic pattern and a reversed characteristic pattern both patterns resulting from interference between the predefined frequency patternof the transmitted signal and the slowed down predefined frequency pattern used in the receiver, the slowed down predefined frequency pattern being controlled by the slower clock rate in the receiver and used in the receiver during synchronization, the time elapsed from start of synchronization represented by a starting point, the synchronization being initiated by a start sync signal, until obtaining the characteristic patterns being a measure of the delay between the transmitted and received signal which is used to synchronize the receiver to the transmitted signals.

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