Code synchronization and path delay estimation for a CDMA system using long code masking

Author

Madhukumar, A.S. ; Chin, Francois

Author_Institution

Centre for Wireless Commun., Singapore

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

117

Abstract

Establishing synchronization with locally generated spread code is one of the most important tasks in DS-CDMA systems for effective and reliable communications. A three-step procedure is proposed in this paper for fast code synchronization and subsequent path delay estimation for a single base station based system in a multipath environment. The synchronization procedure starts from the slot synchronization and then frame synchronization with the help of long code masked symbol. The path delays are estimated from the power delay profile computed from the instantaneous signal power of pilot symbols. The average power delay profile is used as the threshold. This three-step procedure is extensively simulated for different power delay profiles and the results are discussed

Keywords

code division multiple access; delay estimation; land mobile radio; multipath channels; spread spectrum communication; synchronisation; DS-CDMA systems; code synchronization; frame synchronization; instantaneous signal power; locally generated spread code; long code masking; multipath environment; path delay estimation; power delay profiles; slot synchronization; Bandwidth; Base stations; Computational modeling; Delay estimation; Direct-sequence code-division multiple access; Matched filters; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Timing; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva. The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5482-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2000.856010

Filename

856010