A transmitter transmitting payload data using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, including: a frame builder configured to receive the payload data and to receive signalling data to use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and to form the payload data with the signalling data into frames for transmission; a modulator configured to modulate a first OFDM symbol with the signalling data and to modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data; a signature sequence processor circuit providing a signature sequence; a combiner circuit combining the signature sequence with the first OFDM symbol; a prefixing circuit to prefixing a guard interval to the first OFDM symbol to form a preamble; and a transmission circuit transmitting the preamble and the one or more second OFDM symbols. The guard interval is formed from time domain samples of a part of the signature sequence.

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.

Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communication. In an aspect, a sequence generating entity factorizes a comb size N into prime factors of N, and generates one or more offset sequences for a reference signal for positioning based on one or more sequence lists associated with the prime factors of N and a number of symbols M over which the reference signal is scheduled.

A preamble symbol transmitting device and method, includes: generating a prefix according to a partial time-domain main body signal truncated from a time-domain main body signal; generating the hyper prefix according to the entirety or a portion of the partial time-domain main body signal; and generating time-domain symbol based on at least one of the cyclic prefix, the time-domain main body signal and the hyper prefix, the preamble symbol containing at least one of the time-domain symbols.

A data processing device includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit includes a first front-end circuit configured to process first data to obtain first demodulated data, and a back-end circuit coupled to the first front-end circuit and configured to receive the first demodulated data. The second circuit includes a second front-end circuit configured to process second data to obtain second demodulated data, and a transmitter coupled to the second front-end circuit and configured to pack the second demodulated data into data packets and transmit the data packets of the second demodulated data to the first circuit. The back-end circuit is further configured to receive the second demodulated data, and process the first demodulated data and the second demodulated data.

Disclosed is a method for low voltage broadband power line carrier communication; when transmitting a physical layer protocol frame, short preambles are first transmitted to undergo automatic gain control, channel estimation, coarse-grained frequency offset compensation, and symbol synchronization; and then long preambles are transmitted to undergo automatic gain control, channel estimation, fine-grained frequency offset compensation, and symbol synchronization. Compared with the scheme of only transmitting long preambles, the present disclosure combines transmissions of short preambles and long preambles, which thus may quickly and accurately implement frequency offset compensation, automatic gain control, symbol synchronization, and channel estimation without sacrifice of precision, thereby achieving quick convergence, reducing resource overheads and time overheads, and enhancing system performance.

A reference signal transmission method performed by at least one base station, the method including: determining a sequence of a reference signal; performing an inverse Fourier transform (IFT) based on the determined sequence of the reference signal; and transmitting a reference signal generated by performing the IFT through a plurality of continuous symbols. The sequence of the reference signal is determined to satisfy a condition that each of at least one subcarrier signal included in the reference signal continues in a boundary between adjacent two symbols.

A reference signal transmission method performed by at least one base station, the method including: determining a sequence of a reference signal; performing an inverse Fourier transform (IFT) based on the determined sequence of the reference signal; and transmitting a reference signal generated by performing the IFT through a plurality of continuous symbols. The sequence of the reference signal is determined to satisfy a condition that each of at least one subcarrier signal included in the reference signal continues in a boundary between adjacent two symbols.

Systems and methods for enabling pre-compensation of timing offsets in OFDM receivers without invalidating channel estimates are described. Timing offset estimations may be sent along with the received OFDM symbols for FFT computation and generating a de-rotated signal output. The timing offset estimation may provide a reference point for dynamic tracking of timing for an OFDM signal and estimated based on an integral value associated with the OFDM signal.

Systems and methods for enabling pre-compensation of timing offsets in OFDM receivers without invalidating channel estimates are described. Timing offset estimations may be sent along with the received OFDM symbols for FFT computation and generating a de-rotated signal output. The timing offset estimation may provide a reference point for dynamic tracking of timing for an OFDM signal and estimated based on an integral value associated with the OFDM signal.