Method and apparatus for acquistion and tracking of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol timing, carrier frequency offset and phase noise
First Claim
1. A method for estimating symbol timing of a guard interval in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver of a wireless local area network, comprising:
- receiving a preamble including a plurality of short training symbols;
sampling said short training symbols of said preamble at a first rate;
correlating a first short training symbol with a second short training symbol that is adjacent to said first short training symbol and generating a correlation signal;
normalizing said correlation signal to generate a normalized correlation signal; and
calculating a mean absolute difference of said normalized correlation signal.
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Abstract
A method for estimating symbol timing of a guard interval in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver of a wireless local area network comprises receiving a preamble including a plurality of short training symbols; sampling said short training symbols of said preamble at a first rate; correlating a first short training symbol with a second short training symbol that is adjacent to said first short training symbol and generating a correlation signal; normalizing said correlation signal to generate a normalized correlation signal; and calculating a mean absolute difference of said normalized correlation signal.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for estimating symbol timing of a guard interval in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver of a wireless local area network, comprising:
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receiving a preamble including a plurality of short training symbols; sampling said short training symbols of said preamble at a first rate; correlating a first short training symbol with a second short training symbol that is adjacent to said first short training symbol and generating a correlation signal; normalizing said correlation signal to generate a normalized correlation signal; and calculating a mean absolute difference of said normalized correlation signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A symbol timing estimator of a guard interval for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver of a wireless local area network, comprising:
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receiving means for receiving a preamble including a plurality of short training symbols; sampling means for sampling said short training symbols of said preamble at a first rate; correlating means for correlating a first short training symbol with a second short training symbol that is adjacent to said first short training symbol and generating a correlation signal; normalizing means for normalizing said correlation signal to generate a normalized correlation signal; and first calculating means for calculating a mean absolute difference of said normalized correlation signal. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A symbol timing estimator of a guard interval for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver of a wireless local area network, comprising:
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a receiver that receives a preamble including a plurality of short training symbols and samples said short training symbols of said preamble at a first rate; a correlator that correlates a first short training symbol with a second short training symbol that is adjacent to said first short training symbol and generating a correlation signal; a normalizer that normalizes said correlation signal to generate a normalized correlation signal; and a first calculator that calculates a mean absolute difference of said normalized correlation signal. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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