Joint time, frequency and sampling clock synchronization for OFDM-based systems

  • Authors:
  • E. del Castillo-Sanchez;F. J. Lopez-Martinez;E. Martos-Naya;J. T. Entrambasaguas

  • Affiliations:
  • Communication Engineering Department, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain;Communication Engineering Department, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain;Communication Engineering Department, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain;Communication Engineering Department, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

  • Venue:
  • WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A blind method for jointly estimating and correcting time, carrier frequency and sampling clock frequency synchronization in OFDM based systems is proposed. The algorithm is particularlly suitable for low-cost terminal implementations, since it provides a great efficiency in terms of hardware complexity. Its performance has been tested on a real system, taking 3GPPLTE as target technology and FPGAs as hardware platform. Results show its good performance while keeping computational complexity unincreased.