Apparatus and method for estimating delay spread of multi-path fading channel in wireless communication system

摘要

Disclosed are an apparatus and method that can estimate the maximum delay spread by means of simple computation while being robust against SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) variations. A standard deviation value of a noise component is produced from time-domain signal values obtained from a received signal. The time-domain signal values corresponding to preset sampling points are compared with a threshold value designated by the standard deviation value. A delay time of a time index that corresponds to a time-domain signal value equal to or larger than the threshold value and simultaneously is the maximum time index among time indexes respectively corresponding to the sampling points is detected to be a maximum delay spread value.