Timing Advanced Estimation Algorithm of Low Complexity Based on DFT Spectrum Analysis for Satellite System

In satellite mobile communication system, relative movement of the satellite and the terminal will cause a large Doppler offset. Timing advanced estimation with Zadoff-Chu sequence is sensitive to the frequency offset. When the frequency offset is larger than one times subcarrier spacing, the value of peak cannot be detected at the receiving end. To suppress the larger Doppler frequency shift, this paper proposes a novel timing advanced estimation scheme(TAE-MCD) for satellite communication system. In this algorithm, t r a n s m i t t e d s i g n a l i s d i v i d e d i n t o Z C sequence and its conjugate sequence. Using multiplication and DFT operation to find the estimated peak at the receiving end, and make subtraction with the obtained sequences at last. The scheme can not only inhibit the adverse effects of large Doppler frequency shift in timing estimation effectively, but also reduce the computational complexity at the receiving end and improve the work efficiency of the hardware. Simulations results show that TAEMCD outperform the existing timing advanced estimation methods, on the condition of no additional time and frequency resource are needed.

Random access preamble design based on time pre-compensation for LTE-satellite system

Because of the integration of long term evolution （LTE） technology and mobile satellite communication systems, uplink access technology for LTE-based geo-stationary earth orbit （GEO） satellite has become a popular research topic for satellite system. In order to solve the problem of unreasonable design for physical random access channel （PRACH） signal structure and reduce the effect of time uncertainty, this paper proposes a novel random access preamble based on time pre-compensation （TPC） for LTE-Satellite （LTE-S） system. In this scheme, by applying the method of non-linear least squares, the user terminal （UT） can use and based on the transmission delay the receiving power to estimate the communication round trip delay （RTD） of the beam center and the satellite, RTD can be compensated before transmission. Therefore, the preamble length and duration can be reduced without related to the maximum of RTD. In order to verify the performance of the scheme, the MATLAB is used to build a test system. The simulation results show that the proposed preamble satisfies the requirements of LTE-S system, and the better performance than previous researches is obtained.