Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution(LTE)
provides high spectral effciency, high peak data rates and frequency
exibility with
low latency and low cost. Usage of modulation techniques like OFDMA and SCFDMA
enables LTE to achieve such requirements.However it is well known that
OFDM systems like LTE are very sensitive when it comes to carrier frequency off-
sets and symbol synchronization errors.Inorder to transfer data correctly, the User
Equipment(UE) must perform both uplink and downlink synchronization with the
Base station(eNodeB). In this thesis, Primary Synchronization Signal(PSS) and Secondary
Synchronization signal(SSS) are used to detect the cell-ID of the best serving
base station and also to achieve downlink synchronization whereas Physical Random
Access Channel(PRACH) preamble is used to obtain uplink synchronization. PSS and
SSS helps to achieve downlink synchronization by estimating the frame timing and
carrier frequency offsets.In this thesis a non-coherent detection approach is followed
for detection of both PSS and SSS signals
