A combined code acquisition and symbol timing recovery method for TDS-OFDM

A novel timing recovery method which combines code acquisition and symbol timing recovery for TDS-OFDM (time domain synchronous OFDM) is developed. The method is based on the searching and tracking of the correlation peaks of the PN sequences embedded in the signals. Simulations show that this algorithm has very good performance for both AWGN and multipath channels, even when a small frequency offset exists in the sampling clock of the receiver.