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• the present invention generally relates to digital video broadcasting (DVB)
• the present invention relates to synchionizmg tiansmitted data in a multi-carrier modulation based receiver used in a DVB system
• DVB is the European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television DVB systems transmit a compressed digital audio/video sitesam, using multi-carrier modulation, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
• OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
• DVB-T digital video broadcasting-terrestrial
• DVB-T broadcasters transmit data with a compressed digital audio-video siteam using a process based on a Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) - 2 standaid
• MPEG Moving Picture Expert Group
• These transmissions can include all kinds of digital broadcasting, including high definition television (HDTV) MPEG-2 signals represent an improvement ovei the older analog signals, which require separate streams of transmission
• senally- mputted symbol streams are divided into unit blocks
• the symbol sti earns of each unit block are converted into N number of parallel symbols
• these symbols which include data, are multiplexed and added by using a plurality of sub- earn eis having different frequencies, respectively, according to an Invetse Fast Fou ⁇ ei Tiansform (IFFT) technique, and are transmitted via the channel in time domain
• IFFT Invetse Fast Fou ⁇ ei Tiansform
• OFDM symbols [0005] In addition to data, these OFDM symbols also include scattered pilot earners
• SPC continuous pilot carriers
• CPC continuous pilot carriers
• reserve tone pilot ca ⁇ ie are used for frame synchronization, frequency syncmonization, time synchronization, channel estimation, transmission mode identification, and/or phase noise tracing
• the data and the pilot carriers constitute the useful part of the OFDM symbol As understood by those of skill in the art, these OFDM symbols also include less useful portions, such as a guard interval
• OFDM symbols are captured on a receiver side of the OFDM system, they must be demodulated OFDM demodulation procedures include, for example, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) step, an equalizing and de-mterleaving step, and a synchronizing step, among others
• FFT Fast Fourier Transform
• Synchronization of OFDM receivers is performed to locate the useful part of each symbol to which the FFT is to be applied
• This synchronization geneially performed in the time domain, can be characterized as coarse synchronization (e g , initially performed dining an acquisition period) and fine synchronization Fine synchiomzation impioves upon the results achieved during coarse synchronization enough to provide reliable demodulation
• time domain component of these traditional techniques does not accommodate the performance of fine frequency offset estimation
• tiaditional techniques must perform fine frequency offset estimation in frequency domain This is achieved by using continuous pilots
• time domain Time domain is preferred because it allows for much faster signal acquisition since many moie time-consuming steps (such as the estimation of the FFT window) are required before an FFT can be performed
• the present invention includes a method for synchronizing a multiple carrier receiver to receive a transmitted signal.
• the method includes determining a location of one or more scattered pilot carriers in a received symbol sequence and modulating the scattered pilot carriers in accordance with a single pseudorandom binary sequence.
• the method also includes performing phase error correction via the modulated scattered pilot carriers.
• OFDM systems contain both continuous and scattered pilots.
• continuous pilots are used as discussed above.
• a modulated scattered pilot sequence is used to enable the performance of both coarse and fine synchronization in the time domain. That is, the continuous pilots can be used to assist and perform fine synchronization in time domain, ultimately reducing receiver complexity.
• phase error correction one needs to know the actual scattered pilot symbol index or, alternatively, wait for a complete cycle of scattered pilots.
• the present invention provides an approach to resolving this issue by substituting a Gold sequence, with good autocorrelation properties, in the place of the traditional pseudorandom sequence. Use of the Gold sequence enables synchronization to be achieved completely in the time domain.
• FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustration of a conventional OFDM based DVB-T system
• FIG. 2 is a graphical illustration of an exemplary pilot pattern sequence
• FIG. 3 is an illustration of an exemplary linear feedback shift register
• FIG. 4 is an illustration of a two symbol time duration sequence
• FIG. 4B is an illustration of an exemplary linear feedback shift register modified in accordance with the present invention.
• FIG. 5 is an exemplary flowchart of a method of practicing an embodiment of the present invention.
• FIG 1 is a block diagram illustration of transmission/reception terminals of a conventional OFDM mobile communication system
• an OFDM based mobile communication system includes a transmission terminal 100 and a reception terminal 150
• the transmission terminal 100 includes a data transmitter 102, a codei 104, a symbol mapper 106, a serial to parallel (S/P) converter 108, a pilot symbol inserter 1 10, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit 112, a parallel to serial (P/S) convertei 1 14, a guard interval inserter 116, a digital-to-analog converter (D/A converter) 118, and a radio fiequency (RF) processor 120
• the data transmitter 102 generates and outputs user data bits and control data bits to be transmitted to the coder 104
• the coder 104 receives and codes the signals output from the data transmittei 102 accoidmg to a predetermined coding scheme, and then outputs the coded signals to the symbol mapper 106
• the coder 104 may perform coding by means of a convolutional coding scheme or a turbo coding scheme having a predetermined coding rate
• the symbol mappei 106 modulates the coded bits output from the coder 104 according to a corresponding modulation scheme, thereby generating modulation symbols, and outputs the modulation symbols to the S/P converter 108
• the modulation scheme the symbol mapper 106 may follow includes, e g , a BPSK (binary phase shift keying) scheme, a QPSK (quadratuie phase shift keying) scheme, a 16QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) scheme, 64QAM scheme, or others
• the S/P converter 108 receives and converts the serial modulation symbols output from the symbol mapper 106 into parallel modulation symbols, and outputs the converted parallel modulation symbols to the pilot symbol inserter 110
• the pilot symbol insertei 110 inserts pilot symbols into the converted parallel modulation symbols output fiom the S/P converter 108 and then outputs them to the IFFT unit 1 12
• the IFFT unit 112 receives the signals output from the pilot symbol msertei 110, pel forms N-point IFFT for the signals, and then outputs them to the P/S convertei 1 14
• the P/S converter 114 receives the signals output from the IFFT unit 1 12, converts the signals into serial signals, and outputs the converted serial signals to the guaid mteival inserter 116
• the guard interval inserter 116 receives the signals output from the P/S converter 114, inserts guard intervals into the received signals, and then outputs them to the D/A converter 118 The inserted guard interval prevents interference between OF
• the D/A converter 118 receives the signals output from the guaid mteival inserter
• the RF processor 120 includes a filter and a front end unit
• the RF processor 120 receives the signals from the D/A converter 1 18, RF-piocesses the signals, and then transmits the signals over the air through a transmit antenna
• the ieception terminal 150 is discussed in greater detail below
• the reception terminal 150 includes an RF processor 152, an analog-to-digital converter (A/D converter) 154, a guard interval remover 156, a S/P converter 158, an FFT) unit 160, a pilot symbol extractor 162, a channel estimator 164, an equahzei 166, a P/S converter 168, a symbol demapper 170, a decoder 172, and a data receiver 174
• the signals transmitted from the transmission terminal 100 pass thiough multi- path channels and are received by a receive antenna of the reception terminal 150 in a state in which noise is included m the signals
• the signals received through the receive antenna are inputted to the RF processor 152, and the RF processor 152 down-converts the received signals into signals of an intermediate frequency (IF) band, and then outputs the IF signals to the A/D converter 154
• the A/D convertei 154 converts the analog signals output from the RF processor 152 into digital signals and then outputs the digital signals to the guard interval remover 156
• the guard interval remover 156 receives the digital signals converted by and output from the A/D converter 154, eliminates guard intervals from the digital signals, and then outputs them to the S/P converter 158
• the S/P converter 158 receives the se ⁇ al signals output from the guard interval remover 156, converts the serial signals into parallel signals, and then outputs the parallel signals to the FFT unit 160.
• the FFT unit 160 performs N-point FFT on the signals output from the P/S converter 158, and then outputs them to both the equalizer 166 and the pilot symbol extractor 162.
• the equalizer 166 receives the signals from the FFT unit 160, channel-equalizes the signals, and then outputs the channel-equalized signals to the P/S converter 168.
• the P/S converter 168 receives the parallel signals output from the equalizer 166, converts the parallel signals into serial signals, and then outputs the converted serial signals to the symbol demapper 170.
• the signals output from the FFT unit 160 are also inputted to the pilot symbol extractor 162.
• the pilot symbol extractor 162 detects pilot symbols from the signals output from the FFT unit 160 and outputs the detected pilot symbols to the channel estimator 164.
• the channel estimator 164 performs channel estimation using the pilot symbols and outputs the result of the channel estimation to the equalizer 166.
• the reception terminal 150 generates channel quality information (CQI) corresponding to the result of the channel estimation and transmits the CQI to the transmission terminal 100 through a CQI transmitter (not shown).
• CQI channel quality information
• the symbol demapper 170 receives the signals output from the P/S converter 168, demodulates the signals according to a demodulation scheme corresponding to the modulation scheme of the transmission terminal 100, and then outputs the demodulated signals to the decoder 172.
• the decoder 172 decodes the signals from the symbol demapper 170 according to a decoding scheme corresponding to the coding scheme of the transmission terminal 100 and outputs the decoded signals to the data receiver 174.
• OFDM systems data is transmitted and received via multiple carrier frequencies.
• OFDM sub-carriers i.e., tones
• data is modulated and transmitted via many of these subcarriers.
• pilot tones can be used to guard the information carrying subcarriers, to simplify the filtering requirements of the system, or to provide reference phase/amplitude information for the demodulator.
• the positions of the pilot tones may be defined according to the communication standard or defined by the user/designer of the system. Some pilot tones are located on two ends of the frequency spectrum and some of the pilot tones are interspersed within the frequency spectrum.
• an OFDM receiver For each transmitted carrier signal, an OFDM receiver normally attempts to compensate for the distortion induced by the transmission channel. This will normally involve a channel estimation operation and a channel compensation operation. To assist a receiver in overcoming multipath distortion, pilot signals with known data patterns are transmitted. The pilot tones are used to support channel estimation operations. These channel estimation operations normally attempt to estimate the amplitude and phase distortion introduced by the communications channel.
• the pattern structure of the pilot tones can be in essentially any manner, provided that the Nyquist sampling criteria for the communication channel's impulse response and rate of change are satisfied.
• the number of pilot tones transmitted is often a function of the expected multipath distortion delay and the anticipated rate of change in channel conditions. However, for purposes of efficiency, it is desirable to minimize the number of pilot tones transmitted since the transmission of a pilot tone precludes the transmission of data in the transmission slot used to transmit the pilot tone.
• DVB-T OFDM systems often use their pilot tones for the purpose of making channel estimation easier.
• the sparseness of these tones renders it difficult to estimate the channel quickly and with efficient memory usage and calculations.
• Channel estimation is an important function for modern wireless receivers. With even a limited knowledge of the wireless channel properties, a receiver can gain insight into the information sent by the transmitter. The goal of channel estimation is to measure the effects of the channel on known, or partially known transmissions. A channel can change channel properties due to changing conditions and topology. OFDM systems are especially suited for estimating these changing channel properties. More specifically, in OFDM systems, the subcarriers are closely spaced and the system is generally used in high speed applications that are capable of computing channel estimates with minimal delay. As noted above, subcarriers that are sent with a known power and make-up are called pilots and are used for synchronization.
• the present invention provides a unique and novel approach to performing channel estimation. More particularly, the present invention provides enhancements to known channel estimation techniques, such as tone reservation.
• tone reservation for example, carriers are reserved and populated with arbitrary values in order to decrease the PAPR.
• non- arbitrary values can be chosen for carriers that are known. That is, in a given symbol, for example, carriers 3, 7, and 10 are available and instead of using arbitrary values for each of these carriers, five non-arbitrary values (e.g., -2, -1, 0, 1, and 2) can be used. Thus, in this example there are 125 choices (i.e., 5 3 ). Assume that each of the 125 choices includes sufficient granularity such that the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) could be decreased by an amount comparable to PAPR reduction using the arbitrary values. In this scenario, the PAPR could be reduced almost as much as it could by using the arbitrary values.
• PAPR peak to average power ratio
• the receiver has more information with which to perform channel estimates and equalization. The ability to provide this information to the receiver enables these carries to be used as pilots.
• the present invention enables additional, non-pilot channel carriers, to be used to provide the channel estimates.
• FIG. 2 is a graphical illustration of an exemplary pilot pattern sequence 200.
• the pilot pattern sequence 200 includes a symbol group 202 of nine OFDM symbols arranged along Y axis 204 representative of time.
• the Y axis 204 can be in gradations of 200 microseconds ( ⁇ s) up to 1 millisecond. The fidelity of these gradations is dependent upon the total duration of each of the OFDM symbols.
• the graph of FIG. 2 also includes X axis 206 representative of frequency. Evenly spaced carries in each of the symbol groups are arranged along the X axis 206.
• each of the symbols within the symbol group 202 includes different carrier types comprising data carries (d v ), reserved tones (r v ), continuous pilots (c v ), and scattered pilots (s v ).
• the pilot sequence 200 is representative of a sequence configured for use in a DVB-T2 system, it can apply to any OFDM system.
• the first element in the carrier type subscript (e.g. d v ) represents a carrier index.
• the second element of the subscript represents a time index.
• a first OFDM symbol 207 occurring at time 0, includes a continuous pilot c o ,o, a data carrier d /, ⁇ , a data carrier d ⁇ .o, etc.
• the data earners are representative of actual transmitted data.
• the continuous pilots and the scattered pilots are provided to be able to perform channel estimation.
• the continuous pilots are co o and co , i 5
• the symbol 207 also includes a scattered pilot S] 2j o.
• the notion of why two different types of pilots are used is well understood by those of skill in the art and will not be discussed herein.
• pilots tones most OFDM systems include the concept of having pilots that are not located within any particular system
• all of the continuous pilots have a carrier index identical to other carrier pilots, meaning they are in vertical columns with other continuous pilots
• the fact that the continuous pilots are all vertically aligned indicates the pilot location stays the same, across different symbols. That is, if carrier 0 is a pilot in symbol 0 (i e , symbol 207), then carrier 0 is also a pilot in a symbol 208, and a pilot in symbol 210, etc This process is typical of DVB-T systems and wireless local area network (LAN) systems
• the density of the continuous pilots is typically insufficient to adequately perform channel estimation.
• roving oi "scattered" pilots are provided to augment the channel estimation capability of the continuous pilots.
• 2 ,o the scattered pilot is denoted as S
• the symbol 208 includes a scattered pilot sg,i etc These aie the typical types of pilots that can be found in conventional OFDM systems.
• the all of the pilot carriers are evenly spaced along the X axis
• FIG 3 is an illustration of an exemplary LFSR 300 that can be used to produce a
• the LFSR 300 is a component within the pilot symbol inserter 110, illustrated in FIG 1
• the autocorrelation of a typical PRBS can be computed in the binary domain If the autocorrelation resembles an impulse function m the binary domain (i e , suggesting that there is only one high non-zero value and the remaining values are very low non-zero values), then this particular autocorrelation computation can be used to at least determine when the sequence began withm the received symbol Knowing when the sequence began in the received symbol is useful in speeding the acquisition and synchronization process, and minimizing the occurrence of symbol ambiguities
• FIG. 4 is a graphical illustration 400 of two OFDM symbols, combine to represent two symbol durations in time.
• a first group of multi-carrier symbols 402 and a second group of multi-earner symbols 404 are shown.
• the first group 402 includes symbols 0 to 9, each having a 1 st symbol duration of time 406.
• the second group of symbols 404 includes a 2 nd symbol duration time 408.
• the first group of symbols 402 can include 1704 individual carriers, such as the carriers 410, if the OFDM system operates in the 2K mode.
• the first group of symbols 402 will include 6816 carriers, however, if the 8K mode is used.
• the pseudorandom sequence used to derive the scattered and pilot carrier sequences is desirably at least twice as long as any transmitted symbol (i.e. at least two symbols duration). If at least twice as long as the transmitted symbol, symbol ambiguities can be more easily resolved. For example, if a particular sequence is only six values long, embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to determine any errors to within, for example, +/- three values.
• a Gold sequence is used. That is, to create a PRBS in accordance with the present invention, an LFSR, such as the LFSR 300, can be configured to produce a Gold sequence (with good autocorrelation properties) instead of the traditional PRBS used in conventional OFDM systems.
• a Gold sequence includes 2'" + 1 sequences each one with a period of 2"' - 1.
• This Gold sequence is desirably at least as long as the complete scattered pilot cycle that is used, or at least two symbols duration 412. In this manner, syhcnronization can be achieved completely in the time domain with only two symbols wait in the time domain. More specifically, a cross-correlation of the received data with the FFT of the modulated Gold sequence over a time period of two symbols immediately provides an identifiable peak in the output that indicates where the symbol begins.
• the cost to produce this Gold sequence is simply the programming or addition of two more bits in the LFSR to generate the sequence.
• Two more bits in the LFSR can be produced by modifying the LFSR 300 of FIG. 3.
• a modified version of the LFSR 300 is shown in FIG. 4B.
• the LFSR 302 e g , a modified version of the LFSR 300
• the present invention permits ieusing a longer sequence, configured for use with the largest FFT size, with smaller FFT sizes, thereby decreasing the number of LFSRs that have to be created This approach ultimately simplifies the receiver
• Embodiments of the present invention are particularly applicable to DVB-T systems
• Most digital television standards that are based on OFDM have multiple FFT sizes That is, the number of carriers in one symbol could either be 2000 ca ⁇ ieis (2K mode), or roughly 8000 (8K mode)
• the PRBS sequence in order to lesolve all the ambiguities within one symbol, the PRBS sequence must be as long as the length of one symbol Using this conventional approach, however, a different LFSR would be lequired for each FFT size m the receiver chip
• the pseudorandom sequence (e g , Gold code) is designed to be long enough such that its receiver correlation can occur over multiple symbols (i e , twice as long as a single symbol), permitting the same sequence to be used foi all the OFDM FFT sizes
• the sequence length should be twice as long as the numbei of active carriers in the largest FFT size
• the sequence length will be gi eater than twice the corresponding number of active carriers
• this longer sequence does not slow down synchronization because the largest FFT size is the only one tested
• the results for all smaller FFT sizes fall out as side information, thus precluding the need for testing the smaller FFT sizes
• FIG 5 is a flowchart of an exemplary method 500 of practicing an embodiment of the present invention
• a step 502 includes determining a location of one or more scattered pilot carriers m a received symbol sequence and modulating the scatteied pilot carriers in accordance with a single pseudorandom binary sequence, as indicated in a step 504
• phase error correction is performed via the modulated scatteied pilot carriers
• the present invention may be embodied in hardware, software, firmwaie, or any combination thereof
• Embodiments of the present invention or portions thereof may be encoded in many programming languages such as hardware description languages (HDL), assembly language, C language, and netlists etc
• HDL hardware description languages
• e g Ve ⁇ log
• a device e g
• ASIC application specific integrated circuit
• Ve ⁇ log code can be used to model, design, verify, and/or implement a processor that can scale frames using content-aware seam carving
• Ve ⁇ log can be used to generate a register transfer level (RTL) description of logic that can be used to execute instructions so that a frame can be scaled using content-aware seam carving
• the RTL description of the logic can then be used to generate data, e g , graphic design system (GDS) or GDS II data, used to manufactiue the desired logic or device
• GDS graphic design system
• the Ve ⁇ log code, the RTL description, and/or the GDS II data can be stored on a computer readable medium
• the instructions executed by the logic to perform aspects of the present invention can be coded in a variety of progiamming languages, such as C and C++, and compiled into object code that can be executed by the logic or other device
• aspects of the present invention can be stored, in whole or in part, on a computei readable media
• the instructions stored on the computer readable media can adapt a processor to perform the invention, in whole or in part, or be adapted to generate a device, e g , processor, ASIC, other hardware, that is specifically adapted to peiform the invention in whole or in part
• These instructions can also be used to ultimately configure a manufacturing process through the generation of maskworks/photomasks to generate a hardware device embodying aspects of the invention described herein

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