A synchronization device has a signal reception unit and a signal generation unit. The latter provides a multicarrier signal, which serves as an internally transmitted signal. The former receives the same type of externally received signal as the internally transmitted signal. An STO timing detection unit detects a position at which a correlation value in the correlation calculation between sampled data of the internally transmitted signal shifted at a predetermined sampling interval and sampled data of the externally received signal is maximum as an STO timing. A difference calculation unit calculates a difference between phases of the externally received signal and the internally transmitted signal at each subcarrier in a state in which the STO timing is detected. A correction control unit executes correction control on the signal generation unit such that a difference in a phase of each calculated subcarrier is added as a correction amount.

A broadcast signal receiver includes a tuner for tuning a broadcast signal, a reference signal detector for detecting pilots from the tuned broadcast signal, a de-framer for de-framing a signal frame of the broadcast signal and deriving service data based on a number of carriers of the signal frame, and a decoder for performing error correction process on the derived service data.

The disclosure relates to a system implemented on the basis of a field broadband bus architecture of industrial internet, where this system is based upon a two-wire data transmission network widely applied in a traditional industry control system; multi-carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology is introduced to provide a large bandwidth above hundreds of megahertz; a design of a special frame structure, reasonable static and dynamic configurations of physical layer resource blocks, as well as a scheduling strategy of data services at medium access control layer, achieve proper mapping of transmission services to time slices; and a fast synchronized, real-time, high-speed, and reliable solution is provided with respect to the good performance, high reliability, strict real-time characteristic and high security required by a field broadband bus architecture of industrial internet.

Provided are a preamble symbol generation method and receiving method, and a relevant frequency-domain symbol generation method and a relevant device, characterized in that the method comprises: generating a cyclic prefix according to a partial time-domain main body signal truncated from a time-domain main body signal; generating a modulation signal based on a portion or the entirety of the partial time-domain main body signal; and generating time-domain symbols based on at least one of the cyclic prefix, the time-domain main body signal and the modulation signal, wherein the preamble symbol contains at least one of the time-domain symbols. Therefore, using the entirety or a portion of a certain length of a time-domain main body signal as a prefix, it is possible to implement coherent detection, which solves the issues of performance degradation with non-coherent detection and differential decoding failure under complex frequency selective fading channels; and generating a modulation signal as a postfix based on the entirety or a portion of the above truncated time-domain main body signal enables the generated preamble symbol to have sound fractional frequency offset estimation performance and timing synchronization performance.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may perform an access procedure to obtain access to a shared radio frequency spectrum band during a measurement window and generate a synchronization signal (SS) burst comprising a plurality of SS blocks. The base station may perform a beam sweeping first transmission of the SS burst over the shared radio frequency spectrum based at least in part on the access procedure. In the first transmission or a second transmission, the base station may transmit at least one of a first indication of a time of access to the shared radio frequency spectrum band with respect to the measurement window, a second indication of a transmission beam associated with the SS block, and a third indication of a quantity of remaining SS blocks from the plurality of SS blocks to follow the SS block in the measurement window.

Methods and OFDM receivers for decoding an OFDM signal include estimating a channel impulse response from a pilot-dense symbol of the OFDM signal for each of a plurality of potential FFT window positions; determining a noise floor of each of the channel impulse responses; selecting the potential window position corresponding to the channel impulse response with the lowest noise floor as an optimum FFT window position; and decoding symbols of the OFDM signal using the optimum FFT window position.

The present disclosure provides a symbol synchronization method and apparatus. By means of the symbol synchronization method and apparatus, a timing location is adjusted outside an adaptive loop. In addition, the adaptive loop proceeds to according to an original function of the adaptive loop. That is, the timing location is stabilized to an initial symbol-synchronization location, and the timing location is then further corrected and adjusted. Therefore, impact of an error of a timing location on symbol synchronization is eliminated by correcting the timing location, and positioning accuracy of a symbol-synchronization location is improved.

A wireless communication device and method therein for time synchronization in a wireless communication network are disclosed. The wireless communication device determines a first timing (tc) by performing a coarse time synchronization based on a synchronization signal received by the wireless communication device, wherein the received synchronization signal is sampled either in an original sampling rate or a reduced sampling rate. The wireless communication device determines a second timing (tf) by performing a fine time synchronization based on the determined first timing (tc) and the received synchronization signal.

There is provided mechanisms for purpose-dependent determination of start of a receiver symbol processing window. A method is performed by a wireless transceiver unit. The method comprises receiving, from another wireless transceiver unit, a reference signal based on which the start of the receiver symbol processing window is to be determined. The reference signal is to be processed for a processing purpose selected from a set of at least two different processing purposes. The method comprises determining a synchronization time offset from measurements on the reference signal according to an estimation process that is a function of the processing purpose. The synchronization time offset defines placement of the start of the receiver symbol processing window. According to the estimation process, the start of the receiver symbol processing window is placed differently with respect to the at least two different processing purposes.

A method and apparatus are provided for performing acquisition, synchronization and cell selection within an MIMO-OFDM communication system. A coarse synchronization is performed to determine a searching window. A fine synchronization is then performed by measuring correlations between subsets of signal samples, whose first signal sample lies within the searching window, and known values. The correlations are performed in the frequency domain of the received signal. In a multiple-output OFDM system, each antenna of the OFDM transmitter has a unique known value. The known value is transmitted as pairs of consecutive pilot symbols, each pair of pilot symbols being transmitted at the same subset of sub-carrier frequencies within the OFDM frame.