Simple Algorithms for Estimating the Symbol Timing Offset in DCT-Based Multicarrier Systems

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameters	Value
System Bandwidth	5 MHz
Sampling Period	200 ns
Carrier Frequency	2 GHz
Modulation and Demodulation	4-QAM
Total Subcarrier Number ()	512
Length of Redundancy (Examples 2 and 3)	32 (OFDM)
	322, Left and Right Prefixes (DCT)
Channel Models	ITU Ped A 4 km/h (PED200) [15]
	ITU Veh A 100 km/h (VEH200) [15]
Channel Equalization	Zero Forcing
Noise Model	iid AWGN
Detection	Hard Decision
Number of Simulations	10000