TIMING CONTROL IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEX SYSTEMS BASED ON EFFECTIVE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO

摘要

A spread-spectrum communication system provides an effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of received orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) slots in the presence of timing errors. Effective SNR can serve as a diagnostic tool for determining whether there was a timing error when a measured packet error rate (PER) remains high, and a predicted PER from the effective SNR remains low. A loop can use the effective SNR to control a time reference used by an OFDM decoder.