A Composite PN-Correlation Based Synchronizer for TDS-OFDM Receiver

In this paper, we presents a novel synchronizer dealing with carrier frequency offset (CFO), sampling frequency offset (SFO), as well as frame timing offset (FTO) in TDS-OFDM receiver. The proposed schemes are based on tracking the output waveform of a composite PN-correlator (CPC), which provides sufficient correlative gains to detect its peaks even in the presence of large CFOs. From the correlation peaks, we can extract useful information for estimating the synchronization offsets. CFO is recovered by a multi-stage CPC scheme, of which the parameters are adjustable for meeting the system's demands on the tracking range and accuracy. According to the inter-frame variations of correlation waveform, we estimate SFO for a large scale and correct SFO through an interpolator. Meanwhile, frame timing is investigated in this paper, and the analysis indicates a very fast and robust timing scheme is possible for TDS-OFDM receiver. The developed synchronizer is quite robust against a large CFO even in very adverse fading channels, and it is shown by computer simulation that the residual synchronization error has little effect on the performance of TDS-OFDM receiver.