An Improved Symbol Timing Synchronization Algorithm in FBMC Systems

A novel symbol timing synchronization algorithm by iterative method is proposed for FBMC / OQAM systems. In the iterative process, different methods are used for rough timing synchronization and fine timing synchronization. Firstly, the ZC (Zadoff-Chu) sequence delay correlation is used to estimate the coarse timing by cross-correlation. After the coarse timing synchronization compensation, the auto-correlation is used to estimate the carrier frequency offset, so that better frequency offset estimation performance can be obtained. Then, the estimated frequency offset is subjected to sequence compensation, and finally, the fine symbol timing synchronization is performed using the compensated sequence. Compared with other algorithms, it can be concluded that the proposed algorithm can obtain high precision of timing accuracy when there is frequency offset in the system.