Mobile Communications Handbook, 3rd Edition

11

Synchronization of Communication Receivers

 

     Costas N. Georghiades and Erchin Serpedin

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Carrier Synchronization

Carrier Frequency Synchronization

11.3 Carrier Phase Synchronization

Unmodulated Carrier

Synchronization from a Modulated Carrier

11.4 Carrier Acquisition for QAM Constellations

11.5 Symbol Synchronization

11.6 To Browse Further

11.7 Frame Synchronization

Performance

11.8 Synchronization of MIMO Systems

General Considerations

Timing Recovery in MIMO Systems

Carrier Recovery in MIMO Systems

Conclusions

References

Further Reading

11.1 Introduction

 

Etymologically, the word synchronization refers to the process of making two or more events occur at the same time, or, by duality, at the same frequency. In ...