Pulse or digital communications – Repeaters – Testing
Patent
1997-06-10
1999-02-02
Chin, Stephen
Pulse or digital communications
Repeaters
Testing
375200, 375208, 370320, H04B 1500, H04K 100, H04L 2730
Patent
active
058675256
ABSTRACT:
Users or subscribers of a spread spectrum synchronous communications system provide signals to the central station or base unit of that system, and receive signals therefrom. Proper synchronization among those users (and their signals) is needed to ensure proper operation of the system. To ensure proper synchronization among those users, the signal produced by each user is checked for presence and amount of any offset error. This is accomplished by using three despreaders for the signal for each user. For one such user, each such despreader for that user receives the spreading code for that user. However, the spreading code as received by any one such despreader is time-delayed with respect to the spreading code as received by the other two despreaders. Each such despreader receives the spreading code with a different amount of delay imposed on that spreading code. The outputs of the three despreaders are digitally combined (e.g. compared), or compared, to produce the offset estimate for that user. To reduce noise effects, the offset estimate is averaged over a predetermined time duration; alternatively, such averaging can be performed on the outputs of the despreaders, or at some intermediate processing step. The offset estimate is sent to the user, to be used to correct synchronization of that user. Offset estimates that are too small to be useful are squelched and are not so sent to the user, to reduce channel usage and thereby save bandwidth.
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Barham Steven T
Giallorenzi Thomas R
Kingston Samuel C
Smith Patrick J
Steagall Robert W
Chin Stephen
Ghayour Mohammad
L-3 Commuications Corporation
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