METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CODED NULL PACKET-AIDED SYNCHRONIZATION

摘要

The disclosed embodiments relate to a communication system comprising a transmitter that is adapted to transmit a data signal that is broken into a plurality of time slots. The transmitter is adapted to insert communication data into a subset of the plurality of time slots and to create null data representative of information about the communication system. The null data is inserted into a subset of the plurality of time slots not occupied by communication data. Other disclosed embodiments relate to a communication system comprising a receiver (40) that is adapted to receive a data signal that is broken into a plurality of time slots. The receiver (40) is adapted to identify correlation peaks (22, 24) in the data signal that correspond to a subset of the plurality of time slots, the subset of the plurality of time slots including null data representative of information about the communication system. The receiver (40) may associate (56) logical values with the correlation peaks (22, 24) and decode (62) the logical values to obtain the information about the communication system.