JP2005151396A - Reception apparatus and reception control method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set a time synchronizing position so as to effectively utilize the power of a delayed wave. <P>SOLUTION: The reception apparatus comprises a receiving part 2 connected to an antenna 1, a time synchronizing part 3, and a demodulation part 4. The receiving part 2 comprises a frequency converting part 5 for converting a received signal that is received by the antenna 1, into an intermediate frequency signal, a quadrature demodulation part 6 for generating an I signal and a Q signal by applying quadrature demodulation to the intermediate frequency signal, and an A/D conversion part 7 for converting the I signal and the Q signal into a digital baseband signal. The time synchronizing part 3 comprises a correlation computing part 8, a fast arriving wave estimator 9, and a synchronizing position determining part 10. An FFT window is set so that the end of the FFT window come just a little before the end of a fast arriving wave, so that the power of the delayed wave is effectively utilized and reception characteristics can be improved. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a reception apparatus and a reception control method for performing synchronization processing of a received signal based on a known signal sequence.

When communicating between devices, it is necessary to ensure synchronization for processing data in order to accurately transmit signals exchanged between the two devices. Various methods for synchronizing are employed depending on the communication method and protocol. Usually, a known signal sequence called a preamble is used to establish frame synchronization between wireless communication apparatuses. Conventionally, there has been proposed a technique for achieving synchronization using this preamble (Patent Document 1).
JP 2003-304219 A

  Conventionally, the peak position of the matched filter output between the received digital baseband signal and the preamble part added to the head part of the baseband signal and the known signal sequence of the same series is detected, and the detected peak position is selected from the detected peak positions. The synchronization position was sought. For this reason, synchronization is established only in accordance with the arrival time of the arrival wave with the highest power.

  However, in a multipath environment in which a delayed wave exists, there is a problem that the power of the delayed wave cannot be used effectively because the optimum synchronization position with less influence of adjacent symbols is behind the peak value.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object thereof is related to a reception apparatus and a reception control method capable of setting a time synchronization position so that power of a delayed wave can be effectively used.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, a known signal sequence generating unit that generates a known signal sequence for establishing synchronization, a received signal including a known signal sequence and data, and the known signal sequence from the known signal sequence generating unit, Based on the correlation calculation output of the correlation calculation means, the earliest arrival estimation means for estimating the earliest arrival time, and the estimation result of the earliest arrival estimation means And a synchronization position determination means for determining a time synchronization position indicating a period of synchronization with the received signal with reference to the end of the earliest arrival wave.

  According to the present invention, since the time synchronization position of the received signal is determined based on the end of the earliest arrival wave, synchronization can be achieved at a position where the power of the delayed wave can be effectively used, and reception characteristics can be improved.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a first embodiment of a receiving apparatus according to the present invention. The receiving apparatus in FIG. 1 includes a receiving unit 2 connected to an antenna 1, a time synchronization unit 3, and a demodulation unit 4. The receiving unit 2 includes a frequency converting unit 5 that converts a received signal received by the antenna 1 into an intermediate frequency signal, an orthogonal demodulating unit 6 that orthogonally demodulates the intermediate frequency signal to generate an I signal and a Q signal, and an I signal. And an A / D converter 7 for converting the Q signal into a digital baseband signal. The time synchronization unit 3 includes a correlation calculator 8, a first-arrival estimator 9, and a synchronization position determination unit 10.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a frame configuration of a reception signal received by the antenna 1. As shown in the figure, the received signal is composed of a known signal sequence called a preamble signal and a data portion. The preamble signal is obtained by repeating the section S a plurality of times, and the data portion follows the preamble signal. A specific example of the received signal is an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulated signal. The correlation calculation unit 8 in the time synchronization unit 3 performs a correlation calculation between the digital baseband signal and the known signal sequence, and obtains the result. Input to the earliest arrival estimator 9. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the correlation calculator 8. The correlation calculator 8 of FIG. 3 includes a known signal sequence generator 21, a matched filter 22, square calculators 23 and 24, and an adder 25.

  The matched filter 22 obtains a correlation between the digital baseband signal input from the A / D converter 7 via the signal input terminal 26 and the known signal sequence generated by the known signal sequence generator 21.

  4A is a waveform diagram of a preamble portion of a received signal (input signal) received by the antenna 1, FIG. 4B is a waveform diagram of a known signal sequence, and FIG. 4C is an output waveform of the matched filter 22. The figure is shown. The waveform of FIG. 4A shows a part of a preamble used for synchronization or the like in IEEE802.11a as an example of a digital baseband signal.

The waveform of the known signal series in FIG. 4B has the same shape as a part of the waveform in FIG. The output of the matched filter 22 increases when the correlation between the digital baseband signal and the known signal sequence is high, that is, when the similarity between both signals is high. The output of the matched filter 22 is expressed by the following equations (1) and (2).

In the above equations (1) and (2), r _I (k) and r _Q (k) are the I and Q components of the received signal at time k, and when k <0, r _I (k) = r _Q (k) = 0. m _I (i) and m _Q (i) are the I and Q components of the output of the known signal sequence generator 21, N is the number of samples of the known signal sequence, and M _I (k) and M _Q (k) are the matched filter 22 Represents the output.

  The output of the matched filter 22 is composed of a real part and an imaginary part, and these are squared by the square calculators 23 and 24. The multiplication results of the square calculators 23 and 24 are added by the adder 25 and output from the output terminal.

  The output M (k) of the correlation calculator 8 is expressed by equation (3).

M (k) = M _I (k) ² + M _Q (k) ² (3)
Thus, even if a phase and a frequency offset are added to the received signal by calculating the correlation between the digital baseband signal corresponding to the received signal and the known signal sequence and taking the sum of squares, the phase rotation distortion Can be less affected. As shown in FIG. 4C, the output of the correlation calculator 8 takes a peak at the time when the preamble signal and the known signal sequence match. In a wireless propagation environment, a plurality of incoming waves are received with a time shift due to multipath, so that a plurality of peaks appear in a distributed manner according to the arrival time and received power.

  The earliest arrival estimator 9 in the time synchronization unit 3 estimates the arrival time of the earliest arrival from a plurality of arrival waves. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the earliest arrival estimator 9. The earliest arrival estimator 9 of FIG. 5 includes a peak value detector 31, a lowest value detector 32, and a earliest arrival arrival time determiner 33.

  Based on the correlation calculation output input from the correlation calculator 8 via the signal input terminal 34, the peak value detection unit 31 peaks the position having the highest level in the correlation calculation output at the time corresponding to the preamble signal. To detect. The lowest value detection unit 32 detects a position having the lowest level in the correlation calculation output at the time corresponding to the preamble signal. The earliest arrival time determination unit 33 determines the arrival time of the earliest arrival based on the detection result of the peak value detection unit 31 and the detection result of the lowest value detection unit 32.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the correlation calculation output of the preamble signal portion output from the correlation calculator 8, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of the processing operation of the earliest arrival estimator 9. Based on the preamble portion of the output of the correlation calculator 8, the peak value detector 31 detects the peak position (position X in FIG. 6), and the lowest value detector 32 detects the lowest position (position Y in FIG. 6). (Step S1). Here, if Y <X and the lowest position Y is a time after the peak position X, the lowest position detected in the immediately preceding section S is assumed to be Y.

  Next, a value P · A obtained by multiplying the peak value P by the threshold value A is calculated from the output F (t) of the correlation calculator 8 (step S2). Next, the time t is set to the initial time Y (step S3), and the time t is counted up by one sample until F (t) becomes larger than PA (steps S4 and S5). Next, time t-1 is determined as the arrival time of the earliest arrival wave (step S6).

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the types of radio signals arriving at the receiving unit 2. After the earliest arrival wave d0 arrives, there are a plurality of delayed waves d1 to d5 that are shifted in time. The power of the earliest incoming wave d0 is not necessarily the maximum, and the example of FIG. 8 shows an example where the power of the delayed wave d1 is the maximum.

  Conventionally, the FFT window w1 for determining the synchronization position is set in accordance with the arrival time of the earliest arrival wave d0. However, in the present embodiment, the process of FIG. The FFT window w2 is set so that the tail (time t1 in FIG. 8) is the last tail of the FFT window. As a result, the reception characteristics can be improved by effectively utilizing the power of the delayed wave.

  However, if the end of the earliest arrival wave coincides with the end of the FFT window, intersymbol interference may occur due to a slight error in the synchronization detection position, and reception characteristics may deteriorate. For this reason, it is desirable to set so that the end of the FFT window comes slightly before the end of the earliest arrival wave.

  This slightly before is, for example, IEEE802.11a, from 1/40 to 3/40 before 1 OFDM symbol including a guard interval. Since the length of one OFDM symbol including the guard interval is 4 [μsec], when the sampling frequency is 20 [MHz], it is from 2 to 6 samples before (see FIG. 18).

  FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an EVM in each propagation environment when the position of the FFT window is shifted. The conditions are a signal-to-noise ratio of 35 [dB] and a Doppler frequency of 10 [Hz]. The horizontal axis is the number of samples moved from the position where the FFT window is aligned with the end of the FFT window and the end of the DATA part, and the vertical axis is EVM (Error Vector Magnitude).

  In FIG. 18, “◯” indicates a characteristic when there is no multipath (static). “Δ” indicates a characteristic in a multipath environment called ETSI A. “□” indicates a characteristic in a multipath environment called ETSI B. ETSI B has a larger delay spread than ETSI A.

  When the end of the earliest arrival and the end of the FFT window are completely matched (when the horizontal axis in FIG. 18 is “0”), the symbols between symbols due to errors in ramp processing between OFDM symbols or synchronization position detection The reception characteristics deteriorated due to the interference. However, if the end of the FFT window is two or more samples before the end of the OFDM symbol, the characteristic deterioration due to the above-mentioned cause does not occur. Also, since the effect of the present invention is lost if the beginning of the FFT window is too close to the beginning of the guard interval, the present invention is effective if the end of the FFT window is 6 samples before the end of the first OFDM symbol. Was obtained. The present invention is not limited to this, and the end of the FFT window may be from the last 2 samples to 5 to 4 to 3 samples before the end of the first OFDM symbol.

  In the following, what is described as being slightly in front in the description of the second and subsequent embodiments is the same as described above.

  As described above, in the first embodiment, since the FFT window is set so that the end of the FFT window comes slightly before the end of the earliest arrival wave, synchronization is performed at a position where the power of the delayed wave can be effectively used. And reception characteristics can be improved.

(Second Embodiment)
In the second embodiment, the arrival time of the earliest arrival wave is estimated based on the result of averaging a plurality of continuous outputs of the correlation calculator 8.

  FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the second embodiment of the receiving apparatus according to the present invention. The receiving apparatus of FIG. 9 includes a moving average unit 11 that averages a plurality of continuous outputs of the correlation calculator 8 in addition to the configuration of FIG.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the moving average unit 11. The moving average unit 11 shown in FIG. 10 has three stages of cascaded delay devices 41, 42, and 43, a signal from the signal input terminal 46, and outputs of the delay devices 41, 42, and 43 in total. Are added, and a divider 45 that obtains a moving average signal by multiplying the addition output of the adder 44 by 1/4. The correlation calculation output of the correlation calculator 8 is input to the first stage delay unit 41 via the signal input terminal 46. The correlation calculation output input to the first-stage delay device 41 is delayed by one sample at each of the delay devices 41 to 43.

  The moving average signal obtained by the moving average unit 11 is input to the earliest arrival estimator 9. The earliest arrival estimator 9 is configured in the same manner as in FIG. 5 described in the first embodiment, and the peak value detector 31 determines the maximum value among the moving average signals included in the preamble portion of the received signal. The time to take is detected, and the minimum value detection unit 32 detects the time to take the minimum value in the moving average signal included in the preamble portion of the received signal. The earliest arrival arrival time determiner 33 estimates the time at which the earliest arrival arrives in the moving average signal at the time corresponding to the preamble portion of the received signal.

  Thus, in the second embodiment, since the arrival time of the earliest arrival wave is estimated based on a moving average signal obtained by averaging a plurality of continuous outputs of the correlation calculator 8, this estimation accuracy can be improved, and reception characteristics can be improved. Can be improved.

(Third embodiment)
In the third embodiment, the synchronization position is determined in consideration of the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal.

  The receiving apparatus according to the third embodiment is configured in the same manner as in FIGS. 1 and 9, but the internal configuration of the synchronization position determination unit 10 is different from that in FIG. 1. FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of the synchronization position determination unit 10 according to the third embodiment. 11 includes a signal-to-noise ratio estimator 51 that estimates a signal-to-noise ratio of a digital baseband signal input from the receiver 2 via a signal input terminal 53, and a first-arrival estimator. 9 includes a synchronization position determination unit 52 that determines a synchronization position based on the arrival time of the earliest arrival wave input from 9 through the signal input terminal 54 and the signal-to-noise ratio.

  FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the signal-to-noise ratio estimator 51. The signal-to-noise ratio estimator 51 in FIG. 12 is based on the preamble signal correlation detector 61 that detects the correlation between adjacent repeated signal sequences in the preamble signal, and the correlation detected by the preamble signal correlation detector 61. And a determiner 62 for detecting a signal-to-noise ratio.

  For example, when receiving a preamble signal including a repetitive signal sequence every 16 samples as in IEEE802.11a, the preamble signal correlation detector 61 obtains a correlation between adjacent repetitive signal sequences in the preamble signal. . When this correlation is high, it indicates that the adjacent repeated signal sequences of the preamble signal are similar in shape, and it is determined that the noise included in the signal is small and the signal-to-noise ratio is estimated to be large. . On the other hand, when the correlation is low, the shape of the adjacent repetitive signal sequence is not similar, that is, the signal has a lot of noise, and it is estimated that the signal-to-noise ratio is small. Further, not the correlation of the repetitive signal sequence of the received preamble signal but the correlation of the output of the matched filter 22 with respect to the repetitive signal sequence of the received preamble signal may be obtained.

  FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the preamble signal correlation detector 61, and shows an example in which the preamble signal of the digital baseband signal includes a repetitive signal sequence every 16 samples.

  The preamble signal correlation detector 61 in FIG. 13 includes a difference unit 65 that detects a difference between repeated signal sequences every 16 adjacent samples, an absolute value detection unit 66 that detects an absolute value of the detected difference, and a detected signal. And a sum total detection unit 67 for detecting the sum total of 16 samples of absolute values. The sum detected by the sum detector 67 is input to the determiner 62 shown in FIG. 12 as a correlation value.

  If the correlation value detected by the preamble signal correlation detector 61 is larger than the threshold value set by the determiner 62, it is determined that the signal-to-noise ratio is large, and the threshold value by which the correlation value is set by the determiner 62 Is smaller than that, it is determined that the signal-to-noise ratio is small.

  The determination result in the determiner 62 is input to the synchronization position determination unit 52 shown in FIG. Based on the determination result of the determination unit 62 and the arrival time of the earliest arrival wave estimated by the earliest arrival wave estimator 9, the synchronization position determination unit 52 is slightly ahead of the end of the earliest arrival wave (first The synchronization position is determined so that the end of the FFT window comes in the same manner as in the first embodiment. More specifically, the synchronization position determination unit 52 shifts the synchronization position only when the signal-to-noise ratio is high. This is because if the synchronization position is shifted when the signal-to-noise ratio is low, the reception characteristics deteriorate.

  As described above, in the third embodiment, since it is determined whether or not the synchronization position is shifted according to the signal-to-noise ratio, the synchronization position can be shifted only when the reception characteristic is reliably improved. The characteristics can be improved.

(Fourth embodiment)
In the fourth embodiment, the synchronization position is determined in consideration of the delay spread of the propagation path.

  The receiving apparatus according to the fourth embodiment is configured in the same manner as in FIGS. 1 and 9, but the internal configuration of the synchronization position determination unit 10 is different from that in FIG. 1. FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the synchronization position determination unit 10 according to the fourth embodiment. 14 includes a delay spread estimator 71 that estimates the delay spread of the propagation path, and a synchronization position determination unit 72 that determines the synchronization position. The synchronization position determination unit 72 is configured in the same manner as the synchronization position determination unit 52 in the synchronization position determination unit 10 of FIGS.

  The delay spread estimator 71 uses the correlation calculation output input from the correlation calculator 8 via the signal input terminal 73 to estimate the delay wave power with respect to the incoming wave power.

  FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the delay spread estimator 71. The delay spread estimator 71 in FIG. 15 includes a peak power detector 81 that detects power in the vicinity of the peak in the preamble portion of the correlation calculation output from the correlation calculator 8, and a delay wave power detector 82 that detects the power of the delayed wave. And a delay spread determining unit 83 that determines the delay spread based on the peak power detected by the peak power detector 81 and the delayed wave power detected by the delay wave power detector 82.

  The correlation calculation output from the correlation calculator 8 is input to the peak power detector 81 and the delayed wave power detector 82. The peak power detector 81 obtains the magnitude of the signal near the peak in the preamble portion of the correlation calculation output, and the delayed wave power detector 82 obtains the magnitude of the delayed wave signal. The delay spread determination unit 83 compares the ratio of the magnitude of the delayed wave signal to the magnitude of the signal near the peak with a preset threshold value. More specifically, when the above ratio is smaller than the threshold value, it is considered that the delayed wave signal is large, and the time synchronization position is shifted so as to obtain the optimum time synchronization position. Further, when the above ratio is larger than the threshold value, it is considered that the delayed wave signal is small, and it is not necessary to shift the time synchronization position from the peak position.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the delay spread estimator 71. Here, a preamble signal in which a known signal sequence is repeated every 16 samples of IEEE802.11a is considered. In FIG. 15, in the preamble portion of the correlation calculation output from the correlation calculator 8, the sum of the maximum sample size of the 16 samples and the size of one sample before and after that is used as the peak power, and the second to eighth samples from the peak. Is determined as delay wave power.

  The delay spread determining unit 83 obtains the ratio of delayed wave power to peak power and compares it with a threshold value. Based on the arrival time information of the earliest arrival of the digital baseband signal input via the signal input terminal 74 and the determination result of the delay spread estimator 71, the synchronization position determination unit 72 is more than the end of the earliest arrival wave. The time synchronization position is determined so that the front (similar to the first embodiment) is aligned with the end of the FFT window, and the characteristics are improved by effectively using the power of the delayed wave.

  As described above, in the fourth embodiment, since the synchronization position is adjusted in consideration of the ratio of the delayed wave power to the peak power, the synchronization position can be adjusted according to the magnitude of the delayed wave signal. That is, since the effect of shifting the synchronization position is low when the delayed wave signal is small, the synchronization position is not shifted, and when the signal of the delayed wave is large, the effect of shifting the synchronization position is large. Shift the synchronization position.

(Fifth embodiment)
The fifth embodiment is a combination of the third and fourth embodiments.

  The receiving apparatus of the fifth embodiment is configured in the same manner as in FIGS. 1 and 9, but the internal configuration of the synchronization position determination unit 10 is different from that in FIG. 1. FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the fifth embodiment of the synchronization position determination unit 10. 17 includes a signal-to-noise ratio estimator 91 having the same configuration as that of FIG. 11, a delay spread estimator 92 having the same configuration as that of FIG. 14, and a synchronization position determining unit 93.

  The signal-to-noise ratio estimator 91 estimates the signal-to-noise ratio using the digital baseband signal input from the correlation calculator 8 via the signal input terminal 94. More specifically, the signal-to-noise ratio estimator 91 outputs a comparison result between the signal-to-noise ratio of the digital baseband signal and a predetermined threshold value.

  Delay spread estimator 92 outputs a comparison result between the ratio of delayed wave power to peak power and a predetermined threshold value.

  Based on the output of the signal-to-noise ratio estimator 91, the output of the delay spread estimator 92, and the arrival time information of the earliest arrival wave estimated by the earliest arrival wave estimator 9, the synchronization position determination unit 93 Determine the synchronization position. More specifically, the synchronization position determination unit 93 determines whether or not to shift the synchronization position based on the output of the signal-to-noise ratio estimator 91 and the output of the delay spread estimator 92. When shifting, the time synchronization position is set based on the arrival time information of the earliest arrival so that the end of the earliest arrival is slightly before the end of the FFT window (similar to the first embodiment). decide.

  Thus, in the fifth embodiment, since it is determined whether or not the synchronization position is shifted based on the signal-to-noise ratio of the digital baseband signal and the magnitude of the delayed signal, the signal-to-noise ratio is large. Thus, the synchronization position can be shifted only when the delayed wave signal is large. That is, when the signal-to-noise ratio is small, the probability of establishing the synchronization position is low, and shifting the synchronization position degrades the characteristics. Therefore, when the signal-to-noise ratio is small, the synchronization position is not shifted. Such control can be performed.

The block diagram which shows schematic structure of 1st Embodiment of the receiver which concerns on this invention. The figure which shows the frame structure of the received signal received with the antenna. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an internal configuration of a correlation calculation unit 8. (A) is a waveform diagram of a preamble portion of a received signal (input signal) received by the antenna 1, (b) is a waveform diagram of a known signal sequence, and (c) is an output waveform diagram of the matched filter 22. The figure which shows an example of an internal structure of the earliest arrival wave estimator 9. FIG. The figure which shows the correlation calculation output of the preamble signal part output from the correlation calculator 8. FIG. The flowchart which shows an example of the processing operation of the earliest arrival estimator 9. The figure which shows the kind of radio signal which arrives at the receiving part. The block diagram which shows schematic structure of 2nd Embodiment of the receiver which concerns on this invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an internal configuration of a moving average unit 11. The block diagram which shows the internal structure of 3rd Embodiment of the synchronous position determination part 10. FIG. The block diagram which shows an example of the internal structure of the signal-to-noise ratio estimator 51. The block diagram which shows an example of an internal structure of the preamble signal correlation detector 61. FIG. The block diagram which shows the internal structure of 4th Embodiment of the synchronous position determination part 10. FIG. The block diagram which shows an example of an internal structure of the delay spread estimator 71. FIG. The figure explaining operation | movement of the delay spread estimator 71. FIG. The block diagram which shows the internal structure of 5th Embodiment of the synchronous position determination part 10. FIG. The figure which shows EVM in each propagation environment when the position of an FFT window is shifted.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Antenna 2 Reception part 3 Time synchronization part 4 Demodulation part 5 Frequency conversion part 6 Orthogonal demodulation part 7 A / D conversion part 8 Correlation calculation part 9 First-arrival estimator 10 Synchronization position determination part 21 Known signal sequence generator 22 Matched filter 23, 24 square calculator 25 adder 31 peak value detector 32 lowest value detector 33 earliest arrival time determiner 41, 42, 43 delay 44 adder 45 divider 51 signal-to-noise ratio estimator 52 synchronization Position determination unit 61 Preamble signal correlation detector 62 Determinator 71 Delay spread estimator 72 Synchronization position determination unit 81 Peak power detector 82 Delay wave power detector 83 Delay spread determination unit 91 Signal to noise ratio estimator 92 Delay spread estimator 93 Synchronization position determination unit

Claims (9)

Known signal sequence generating means for generating a known signal sequence for establishing synchronization;
Correlation calculation means for performing a correlation calculation between a received signal including a known signal series and data and the known signal series from the known signal series generation means;
Based on the correlation calculation output of the correlation calculation means, the earliest arrival estimation means for estimating the earliest arrival time that arrived earliest;
Synchronization position determination means for determining a time synchronization position indicating a period of synchronization with the received signal based on an estimation result of the earliest arrival wave estimation means, based on an end of the earliest arrival wave. Receiver device. Receiving means for receiving a received signal including the known signal sequence and data and generating a digital baseband signal;
The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the correlation calculation unit performs a correlation calculation between the digital baseband signal and the known signal sequence from the known signal sequence generation unit. A moving average means for averaging a plurality of continuous correlation calculation outputs of the correlation calculation means;
The receiving apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the earliest arrival wave estimation means estimates the earliest arrival arrival time that has arrived at the reception means earliest based on the output of the moving average means. Comprising signal-to-noise ratio estimating means for estimating a signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal;
4. The synchronization position determination means determines a time synchronization position based on an estimation result of the earliest arrival estimation means and an estimation result of the signal-to-noise ratio estimation means. A receiving device according to claim 1. The signal-to-noise ratio estimation means includes
Correlation degree detecting means for detecting the degree of correlation between adjacent known signal sequences included in the received signal;
5. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising correlation degree determination means for estimating a signal-to-noise ratio based on the detected correlation degree. Delay spread estimating means for estimating an estimated spread of the propagation path based on the output of the correlation calculating means;
6. The synchronization position determination means determines a time synchronization position based on an estimation result of the earliest arrival estimation means and an estimation result of the delay spread estimation means. The receiving device described. The delay spread estimating means includes:
Peak power detection means for detecting the maximum power of the known signal sequence included in the received signal based on the output of the correlation calculation means;
Delay wave power detection means for detecting the power of the delay wave of the received signal;
7. A comparison means for estimating an estimated spread of a propagation path based on a detection result of the peak power detection means and a detection result of the delay wave power detection means. The receiving device described in 1.   8. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the received signal is an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulated signal. Generate a known signal sequence for establishing synchronization,
Perform a correlation operation between the received signal including the known signal sequence and data and the generated known signal sequence to generate a correlation operation output,
Based on the correlation calculation output, the earliest arrival time that arrived earliest is estimated,
A reception control method, comprising: determining a time synchronization position indicating a period of synchronization with the received signal based on an estimation result of a earliest arrival time with reference to an end of the earliest arrival wave.

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