|Publication number||US7646784 B2|
|Application number||US 11/026,957|
|Publication date||Jan 12, 2010|
|Priority date||Sep 2, 2004|
|Also published as||US20060045137|
|Publication number||026957, 11026957, US 7646784 B2, US 7646784B2, US-B2-7646784, US7646784 B2, US7646784B2|
|Inventors||PanSoo Kim, Yun-Jeong Song, Soon-Ik Jeon, Deock-Gil Oh, Ho-Jin Lee|
|Original Assignee||Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (17), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (2), Classifications (20), Legal Events (2)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to a mobile broadcast interactive satellite multimedia access technology; and, more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for estimating the carrier frequency offsets between transmitted (Tx) signal and Received (Rx) signal in Time division multiple access (TDMA) system.
In general, a receiving terminal of a wired/wireless communication system performs a process of reproducing the original signal after a received RF signal through a radio frequency (RF) module and an intermediate frequency (IF) module. In this procedure, the RF signal is down converted into a baseband signal based on a reference frequency created by an analog local oscillator.
Nonetheless, since distortion occurs in the process of converting the RF signal to the baseband signal, it is impossible to perform normal recovery of the carrier frequency due to the imperfection of the analog local oscillator.
Furthermore, if the receiving terminal would be on move, the carrier frequency of the receiving RF signal would be shifted due to the Doppler effect and thus the original signal cannot be recovered normally.
A burst modem based on a TDMA uses feedforward frequency estimation circuit to estimate the offset of the carrier frequency and Doppler frequency. Herein, due to a problem of initial capture time for frequency offset, the feedforward frequency estimation circuit is used instead of a feedbackward frequency estimation circuit.
For example, a frequency estimating method autocorrelator using and an arc tangent lookup table is disclosed in an article entitled “Data-Aided Freq. Estimation for Burst Digital Transmission”, by U. Mengali and M. Morelli (hereinafter which will be referred to as M&M) IEEE Trans. Commun. Vol. 45, No. 1 January 1997.
Also, a frequency estimating method using a similar autocorrelator to ‘M&M’ is disclosed in an article entitled “Planna filtered techniques for burst mode carrier synchronization” (which will be referred to as Fitz), by IEEE Glebecom '91, Phoenix, Ariz. M. P. Fitz, December 1991 and in an article entitled “Carrier Frequency Recovery in All Digital Modems for Burst Mode Transmission” by M. Luise and R. Reggiannini (which will be referred to as L&R), IEEE Trans. Commun. Vol. 43, No. 3 March 1995.
Generally, frequency offset lock range normalized to symbol rate, should be about 0.1 to remove the noise of transmitted (Tx) signal by matched filter, but the ‘Fitz’ and ‘L&R’ cannot satisfy this requirement.
Furthermore, the frequency offset estimating method suggested by the ‘M&M’, ‘Fitz’ and ‘L&R’, can make nearly perfect estimation by using an autocorrelator which is half as long as a half length of Data-Aided symbol. However, the autocorrelator has a problem that it increases the number of multipliers and memories to hereby increase the complexity.
Therefore, it is required that a frequency offset estimation apparatus is developed to perform accurate frequency offset estimation with a simple hardware structure.
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for estimating the frequency offset through a received (Rx) signal in TDMA system. An apparatus for estimating a frequency offset from a received (Rx) signal, comprising: a filter for alleviating a jitter of received signal thereby obtaining a filtered signal; a multiplier for multiplying the filtering signal by a complex conjugate pilot signal thereby obtaining a multiplied signal; a phase-rotation value calculator for calculating a phase-rotation value from the multiplied signal by using a symbol delay and an autocorrelation function; and a frequency offset estimator for estimating the frequency offset based on the phase-rotation value through a multiplication of a smoothing function.
A method for estimating a frequency offset from a received signal, comprising the steps of: filtering a jitter by moving average filtering on the received signal; multiplying the filtered signal by complex a conjugate pilot signal; calculating a phase rotation value from the multiplied signal by using a symbol delay and an autocorrelation; and estimating the frequency offset by multiplying the calculated phase rotation value with a smoothing function.
The above and other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Hereafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
As shown, the apparatus include a moving average filtering unit 110, a multiplier 120, a phase rotation measuring unit 130, a frequency offset estimating unit 140 and a frequency offset correcting unit 150.
The moving average filtering unit 110 receives a received signal ri(k) including a noise and alleviates the jitter of the received signal ri(k). Namely, the moving average filtering unit 110 enhances the accuracy of frequency offset estimation without increasing the number of autocorrelators by decreasing the distribution of the noise added received signal ri(k).
The multiplier 120 multiplies a filtered signal by a complex conjugate pilot signal, and the phase rotation measuring unit 130 measures a phase rotation value between a preceding symbol and a current symbol by using a symbol delay and an autocorrelation function.
The frequency offset estimating unit 140 estimates a frequency offset by using the measured phase rotation value and a smoothing function. The frequency offset correcting unit 150 corrects the frequency offset of the received signal by multiplying the noise added received signal by the estimated frequency offset, thereby outputting an output signal ro(k)
The moving average filtering unit 110 includes a plurality of delay taps 210, a plurality of multiplier 220, and a summing block 230.
In the drawing, ‘α’ denotes the number of delay taps 210, ‘1/α’ means a filter coefficient as a weight value, and the initial delay tap is set to ‘0’. At a random point, when a received signal ri(k) is putted into the moving average filtering unit 110, it is stored in a first delay tap 210 and coincidentally transmitted for an output of the moving average filtering unit 110. The received signal ri(k) is expressed as the following equation 1.
r(k)=c k ·e j(2πf
Wherein, k means a symbol/sample unit that activated by 1 sample per symbol; Ck means a predetermined pilot signal; n(k) means a noise signal; fd means a frequency offset; and θ means a phase rotation value.
The signal stored in the first delay tap 2101, is transmitted to a second delay tap 2102 and it is transmitted coincidentally for the moving average filtering unit 110. The transmission process is performed serially, and the last delay tap signal is transmitted for the output of the moving average filtering unit 110. Herein, the signal, transmitted for the output of moving average filtering unit 110, is multiplied by the filter coefficient ‘1/α’ in the multiplier 220, and a multiplied signal is outputted and add up to one signal as Equation 2 by summer 230.
The multiplier 120 multiplies the filtered signal r′(k) by complex conjugate pilot signal (C*k) and executes the operation based on Equation 3 thereby obtaining a multiplied signal z(k). Here, the pattern of complex conjugate pilot signal is 1, 1, 1 . . . .
The phase rotation measuring unit 130 includes a symbol delay unit 310, an autocorrelation calculating unit 320, and a phase rotation value calculating unit 330.
In detail, after the multiplied signal z(k) is d-symbol delayed in the symbol delay unit 310, the complex conjugate operation is executed. And, the delayed and complex conjugated signal z*(k−d) is multiplied by the multiplied signal z(k). Thereafter, the autocorrelation calculating unit 320 calculates an autocorrelation coefficient R(d) by using the operated signal z(k)z*(k−d) based on equation 4.
Wherein, R(d) is a calculating result of phase rotation value from symbol of d point to L0−1 symbol and L0 is a estimation length of symbol and the number of autocorrelator included in the autocorrelation calculating unit 320 can be extended up to N, where N is a positive number. Herein, the multiply operand coefficient is N(2L0−N−1)/2.
The phase rotation value calculating unit 330 calculates phase rotation value between a previous symbol and a present symbol by calculating an argument of the autocorrelation coefficient.
φ=[argR(d)−argR(d−1)]2π Eq. 5
Subsequently, the frequency offset estimating unit 140 multiplies the phase rotation value by a coefficient w(d) defined by Equation 6. Herein, the coefficient defined in Equation 6 is a value of a smoothing function decided by the number of delay symbols ‘d’ of the symbol delay unit 310.
Because the argument operated phase rotation value and the phase offset estimation value are not linear, the argument operated phase rotation value and the frequency offset are lineared by performing the normalization with multiplying the coefficient defined in Equation 6.
Subsequently, the frequency offset correcting unit 150 corrects the frequency offset of received signal by multiplying the frequency offset estimation value by the received signal expressed in Equation 1.
As shown, first, the moving average filtering of noised received signal alleviates the jitter.
Subsequently, at step s520, the filtered signal is multiplied by complex conjugate pilot signal. Then at step s530, a phase rotation value is calculated from multiplied signal by using the symbol delay and autocorrelation.
Then, at step s540, the frequency offset is calculated by multiplying the calculated phase rotation value by smoothing function. Then at step s550, frequency offset is corrected by multiplying estimated frequency offset by formal received signal.
As shown, a type 1 burst transmitting structure includes a preamble and a data field. The apparatus for estimating a frequency offset from a received signal of the present invention, estimates frequency offset in preamble of received burst, corrects frequency offset of the proper data field in the direction of reference numeral 610.
Furthermore, the burst transmitting structure of a type 2 is a distributed pilot structure that a pilot and a data field is separated. As shown, the apparatus for estimating a frequency estimates the frequency offset in pilot #1. Then corrects frequency offset of the forepart data field in pilot #2 in the direction of a reference numeral 620.
Also, a frequency offset in pilot #2 is corrected, corrects frequency offset of the forepart data field in pilot #3 is corrected in the direction of reference numeral 630.
The burst transmit structure of a type 3 includes a preamble, data field and a postamble. The apparatus for estimating a frequency offset simultaneously corrects the frequency offset of the data field in the direction of reference numerals 640, 650.
Moreover, the burst transmitting a data field of type 4 includes a data field, a midamble and a data field, and the apparatus for estimating a frequency offset of the present invention corrects the frequency offset of the data field in the direction of reference numerals 660 and 670 by frequency estimating of each preamble and postamble.
As shown, the frequency offset lock range of reference numeral 710 is about 0.4. The more taps the moving average filter has, the narrower the offset lock range of the apparatus for estimating a frequency offset 720 and 730, 740 each having 2, 6, 10 taps become. For example, if the number of the taps of the moving average filter is 10, the frequency offset lock range of the apparatus for estimating a frequency offset is about 0.05. As the number of moving average filter is increased, the accuracy of apparatus for estimating a frequency offset is increased but the frequency offset lock range is decreased.
The abscissa axis is a Eb/No, the ordinate axis is a normalized variance of the frequency offset. The burst transmitting structure of preferred embodiment is a type 1 of
The reference numeral 810 illustrated in
As shown, if the number of autocorrelators is 32, the conventional method has a frequency offset distributing value that is close to a theoretic value. However it has a problem complexity in calculation and hardware that is increased, if the number of autocorrelators is 4, the complexity in calculation and hardware is decreased, but here is a problem that the performance is lower than the theoretic value.
However, the apparatus for estimating a frequency offset 840, 850 and 860, having autocorrelators, which is suggested in present invention, can acquire a value close to the offset variance value as the number of moving average filter is increased. That is, the apparatus for estimating a frequency offset of the present invention, shows performance approximated theoretic value without increasing the complexity of calculation and hardware, by not increasing the number of autocorrelators and by using the moving average filter.
The present application contains subject matter related to Korean patent application no. 2003-79003, filed in the Korean Patent Office on Nov. 10, 2003, the entire contents of which being incorporated herein by reference.
While the present invention has been described with respect to certain preferred embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.
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|U.S. Classification||370/436, 370/517, 375/362, 370/519, 375/149, 370/516, 370/437, 375/323|
|International Classification||H03K9/10, H04L7/04, H04J3/16, H04J3/06, H04J4/00, H04B1/00|
|Cooperative Classification||H04L27/0014, H04L2027/0069, H04L2027/0028, H04L2027/0065, H04L2027/0048|
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