A frame synchronization solution for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system

Abstract

To improve frame synchronization precision, a scheme named training symbol correlation (TSC) is presented for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Based on the solution from Schmidl and Cox, a timing metric related to TSC scheme is put forward and examined. The specific method to select a threshold value provides more precise detection results, which can be shown by performance comparison between the two schemes through Monte Carlo simulation. Taking IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard as an example, the proposed approach is superior to the most popular Schmidl scheme in terms of BER.

Keywords

frame synchronization / orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) / training symbol correlation, (TSC) scheme