Effect of multipath Rayleigh fading on time synchronization of non-coherent frequency hopping systems

Author

Zhao, Hong ; Wang, Qiang ; Bhargava, Vijay K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

fYear

1993

fDate

14-17 Sep 1993

Firstpage

879

Abstract

The paper analyzes time synchronization performance of non-coherent frequency hop spread spectrum (FH-SS) systems in multipath Rayleigh fading channels. The mean values and variances of the estimator are derived with the consideration of various multipath fading channel conditions. Results show that multipath fading has a greater effect on the mean values of the timing error estimation than on its standard deviations. The fact that the mean values of the estimated timing error may lose linear and zero-crossing properties due to the corruption of the multipath fading may mean that the usage of the spectral timing error estimation method for the time synchronization of an FH-SS system in multipath Rayleigh fading channels, currently a very common model for urban mobile radios, is inappropriate

Keywords

error analysis; fading; frequency agility; mobile radio systems; parameter estimation; spread spectrum communication; synchronisation; telecommunication channels; FH-SS systems; corruption; fading channel conditions; linear properties; multipath Rayleigh fading; noncoherent frequency hopping systems; performance; spectral timing error estimation method; time synchronization; timing error estimation; urban mobile radios; zero-crossing properties; AWGN; Delay effects; Digital communication; Error analysis; Fading; Frequency synchronization; Mobile communication; Rayleigh channels; Spread spectrum communication; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1993. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2416-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1993.332434

Filename

332434