An Implementation of Time and Frequency Synchronization for Carrier Interferometry of OFDM in an Underwater Acoustic Channel

Considering the features of Underwater Acoustic channel and the sensitivity versus synchronization for CI/OFDM system, A time and frequency synchronization method based on Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation(CAZAC) sequence is presented. The time offset estimation and carrier frequency offset estimation can be achieved simultaneously. The fractional part and integral part of carrier offset estimation can be respectively got by the correlation result of time offset estimation and cyclic correlation principle. The efficacy of the synchronization algorithms is demonstrated experimentally.

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