CELL SEARCH METHOD IN OFDM CELLULAR SYSTEM, FRAME TRANSMISSIN METHOD THEREOF, AND FORWARD LINK FRAME STRUCTURE THEREOF

摘要

A cell search method in an OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) cellular system, a frame transmission method therefor, and a forward link frame structure are provided to smoothly perform handover by effectively searching an adjacent cell, and reduce the amount of battery consumption of a mobile station. The first detecting unit obtains symbol synchronization by applying a matching filter to a reception signal(S800). A hop pattern correlation values are calculated by using reception synchronous channel symbols extracted from the reception signal based on the obtained symbol synchronization information, and a hop pattern of a target cell is detected based on the calculated hop pattern correlation values(S820). A code group and a frame boundary of the target cell are detected based on the detected hop pattern(S840). Pilot correlation values of common pilot channel symbols and scrambling codes belonging to the detected code group are calculated, and the scrambling codes of the target cell are detected based on the calculated pilot correlation value(S860). It is checked whether the detection results are reliable(S880).