Abstract:
In order to execute the cell-search procedure in a cellular communication system (such as a system based upon the 3GPP TDD standard), there are available identification codes for the second step (slot synchronization) and for the third step (identification of the scrambling codes). Said identification codes are identified by means of a process of correlation with the received signal and are used for obtaining from a correspondence table the parameters for the execution of the second step (CD) or of the third step (SCR). The correspondence table is stored in a reduced form by means of the identification, according to rules of symmetry and redundancy, of subtables designed to generate the entire table by means of appropriate combination operations. The search procedure in the correspondence table thus reduced is conveniently modified by means of the introduction of said combination operations. A preferential application is in mobile communication systems based upon standards, such as UMTS, CDMA2000, IS95 or WBCDMA.
Abstract:
Once slot synchronization has been obtained in a first step, during a second step there is acquired, by means of correlation (111, 117) of the received signal (r) with the synchronization codes, the information corresponding to the codegroup and to the fine slot synchronization. The synchronization codes are split into codesets. In a first step, a synchronization code identifying a corresponding codeset (CS) is identified by means of correlation (111) and search for the maximum value of correlation energy (114). In a second step, the received signal (r) is correlated (117) with the remaining codes (113) belonging to the codeset identified. The information thus obtained, which corresponds to all the synchronization codes comprised in the codeset identified, is used (115) for obtaining frame synchronization and codegroup identification. Preferential application is in mobile communication systems based upon standards, such as UMTS, CDMA2000, IS95 or WBCDMA.