Human-generated information has been the main interest of the wireless communication
technologies designs for decades. However, we are currently witnessing the emerge of an …

Timing and carrier synchronization is a fundamental requirement for any wireless
communication system to work properly. Timing synchronization is the process by which a …

The integration of satellite and terrestrial 5G networks aims to provide ubiquitous coverage,
improve service reliability, and enable the network scalability. However, the inherent …

Cell search and synchronization in the Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long-
Term Evolution (LTE) system is performed in each user equipment (UE) by using the primary …

Mobile devices perform cell search for initial access in cellular-based industrial Internet of
Things (IoT) systems. Existing fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) cell-search scheme …

A technique is developed for reconstructing a continuous phase time history from the
noncontinuous phase bursts of time division multiple access (TDMA) signals. A continuous …

A novel architecture for efficient time and frequency synchronization, applied to the long-
term evolution (LTE) standard, is proposed. For symbol timing, we propose applying a …

Machine Type Communications (MTC) is one of the prominent solutions to enable the
Internet of Things (IoT). With a large number of IoT applications envisioned over the cellular …

This article investigates the advantages and disadvantages of cell search for LTE and NR.
This investigation enables us to design a couple of synchronization signals specified in …

One of the challenging tasks in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) baseband receiver design is
synchronization, which determines the symbol boundary and transmitted frame start time …