Zheng Xiaozhen, Meng Yanhua. An improved training sequence-based symbol synchronization method in OFDM systems. [J]. (1):11-13(2013) DOI: 10.13756/j.gtxyj.2013.01.011.
An improved training sequence-based symbol synchronization method in OFDM systems
Symbol synchronization offset seriously affects the performances of OFDM systems.In view of the existence of metric plateau when the S&C method is used and of redundant peaks when the Minn method is used
a new symbol synchronization method is proposed in this paper.This new timing metric calculation method is designed on the basis of the Minn method
which eliminates the timing metric plateau and avoids that of redundant peaks in the timing metric curve.Simulation results show that when this method is used
the timing metric curve has only one peak and has even smaller Mean Square Error(MSE) in low SNR and multi-path fading environment.