• Patent Title: Methods and systems for dynamic single-frequency-network-multicast symbol synchronization
  • Application No.: US14587184
    Application Date: 2014-12-31
  • Publication No.: US09641371B2
    Publication Date: 2017-05-02
  • Inventor: Alan P Conrad
  • Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC
  • Main IPC: H04L27/26
  • IPC: H04L27/26
Methods and systems for dynamic single-frequency-network-multicast symbol synchronization
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamic single-frequency-network-(SFN)-multicast symbol synchronization. In an embodiment, a wireless-communication device (WCD) receives an SFN-multicast transmission at least in part by receiving a respective SFN-multicast-transmission signal from each site in a plurality of sites in a given SFN-multicast area, where each such received SFN-multicast-transmission signal has a respective SFN-multicast cyclic prefix. The WCD calculates a multisource multipath delay spread (“MMDS”) that is characteristic of the received plurality of SFN-multicast-transmission signals, and determines whether that calculated MMDS exceeds a threshold MMDS. If so, the WCD selects a multicast timing point that is after the SFN-multicast cyclic prefix of a first-received one of the received SFN-multicast-transmission signals. If not, the WCD selects a multicast timing point that is within the SFN-multicast cyclic prefix of the first-received SFN-multicast-transmission signal. The WCD uses the selected multicast timing point to demodulate the received SFN-multicast transmission.
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