Joey(Haozhang) Jia

M. Sc. Student University of Saskatchewan Supervisor:  Professor David E. Dodds Department of Electrical  Engineering University of Saskatchewan 57 Campus Drive Saskatoon SK S7N 5A9 Canada Telephone:  (306) 374-4628 Email:  haj532@mail.usask.ca Master Thesis and Research This M. Sc. project investigates frame synchronization for pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM). In this scheme, known pilot symbols are periodically inserted into the transmitted data symbol stream and then used by the receiver to reduce the effects of channel fading in a mobile communication channel. It is proposed to use a non-coherent synchronizer that uses only the magnitude of the received signal to identify the pilot symbol timing. Decision metrics are based on high SNR approximation of maximum likelihood ratio and on Euclidean distance from the pilot sequence. The proposed system is being evaluated using Simulink/Matlab software. Education and Experiences Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, July 1999, Inner Mongolia University My Resume Publications and Theses CCECE_05 May 1-4, Saskatoon, SK Master Thesis, September 2005