LTE Basic Procedure/Time Sync Process

Overview

• UE decode Primary sync with three different Primary Sync Sequence and figure out which sequence is assigned for the cell and obtain the primary time sync.
• Apply the primary sync sequence for decoding the Secondary Sync code and figure out which sequence is assigned for the cell.
• Once this timing sync get established, UE can decode MIB and figure out SFN number since MIB carries SFN number.

precondition

To detect PSS and SSS, you need to get the data with a sequence of specific resource elements accurately. To accurately extract the data from a specific resource elements, you need to know the exact symbol boundary (starting sample and ending sample of an OFDM symbol). Once you detect the exact symbol boundary, you can detect the frequency offset (a kind of frequency error) to further compenstate the signal. In some sense, these two steps are more difficult than PSS, SSS detection.

待解决疑问

1. This Sync detection is done every 5 ms.
2. As I mentioned in previous section, three different sequences are used as the primary sync signal and there is a one-to-one mapping between each of the three sequences and the cell ID within the cell identity group.
3. 自相关性窗口的实现细节
4. 如何解决各种噪音造成的干扰误差