Method for creating symmetric-identical preamble and method for synchronizing symbol and frequency of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals by using symmetric-identical preamble

摘要

A method for synchronizing symbol timing and frequency of symmetric-identical (SI) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed signals (OFDM) wherein an SI preamble is used for calculation of the symbol timing and frequency synchronism offset of the OFDM signals out of the samples of the received signals is provided. The SI preamble includes a first sample group and a second sample group, being alternately arrayed several times, in which the first sample group includes a designated number of samples that are arrayed in order of arrival, while the second sample group includes the same number of samples with the first sample group, but in inverse order of arrival. Because distinctive correlation coefficients of the identical samples are very distinctive from each other, it is possible to estimate a starting point of the OFDM symbol more precisely. Using the SI preamble, both symbol synchronism and a fine frequency offset and a coarse frequency offset can be estimated. Moreover, the transmission efficiency and the overall capacity of the OFDM system are greatly improved.