Frequency-timing control loop for wireless communication systems

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A frequency-timing control loop comprising a frequency control loop to acquire and track the frequency of a given signal instance in a received signal and a timing control loop to acquire and track the timing of the same signal instance. The timing control loop processes data samples for the received signal to provide a first control indicative of timing error in the data samples for the signal instance. The frequency control loop includes a frequency discriminator used to derive a second control indicative of frequency error in the data samples for the signal instance and a loop filter , used to filter the first and second controls to provide a third control. This third control is …