AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL FOR A TIME DIVISION DUPLEX RECEIVER

摘要

A method and system for automatic gain control (AGC) in a TDD communication system, wherein each time slot of the communication signal contains a preamble in binary phase shift keying (BPSK) format, located at the beginning of the time slot. The channel estimation by the receiver is improved since the preamble allows AGC to quickly estimate the signal strength and adjust the gain accordingly. This permits all data symbols within the data burst, which follows the preamble, to be correctly received, and results in a midamble channel estimate that is much more accurate. It also allows the AGC circuit within the TDD receiver to be greatly simplified.