OFDM/FM frame synchronization for mobile radio data communication

A synchronization scheme enabling the use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)/FM over a mobile radio channel in a pure ALOHA environment is proposed. The scheme encodes synchronization information in parallel with data in the same manner in which data is encoded in the OFDM/FM frame. The synchronization information is in the form of tones, centered in certain reserved frequency subchannels of the OFDM signal. The receiver uses a correlation detector, implemented in the frequency domain, to acquire synchronization accurately on a packet-by-packet basis. Experimental results indicate that the bit-error-rate performance achievable with the proposed scheme is within 1.5 dB of the performance obtained with ideal synchronization. >

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