| 摘要 |
A receiver recovers data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, the OFDM symbols including a plurality of sub-carrier signals. Some of the sub-carrier signals carrying data symbols and some of the sub-carrier signals carrying pilot symbols, the pilot symbols comprising scattered pilots symbols and continuous pilot symbols. The continuous pilot symbols are distributed across the sub-carrier signals in accordance with a continuous pilot symbol pattern and the scattered pilot symbols are distributed across the sub-carrier signals in accordance with a scattered pilot signal pattern. The receiver comprises a demodulator configured to detect a signal representing the OFDM symbols and to generate a sampled digital version of the OFDM symbols in the time domain. A Fourier transform processor is configured to receive the time domain digital version of the OFDM symbols and to form a frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols, from which the pilot symbol bearing sub-carriers and the data symbol bearing sub-carriers can be recovered. A detector is configured to recover the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols and to recover the pilot symbols from the pilot bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols in accordance with the scattered pilot symbol pattern and the continuous pilot symbol pattern. The scattered pilot symbol pattern is one of a plurality of scattered pilot symbol patterns and the continuous pilot pattern is independent of the scattered pilot symbol pattern. The detector comprises a memory configured to store a master continuous pilot pattern and a processor configured to detect the number of sub-carrier signals in the plurality of sub-carrier signals and to derive the continuous pilot pattern from a master pilot pattern based on the number of sub-carrier symbols. |
