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A spread-spectrum receiver must generate a spreading sequence or frequency-hopping pattern that is synchronized with the received sequence or pattern; that is, the corresponding chips or dwell intervals must precisely or nearly coincide. Any misalignment causes the signal amplitude at the demodulator output to fall in accordance with the autocorrelation or partial autocorrelation function. Although the use of precision clocks in both the transmitter and the receiver limit the timing uncertainty in the receiver, clock drifts, range uncertainty, and the Doppler shift may cause synchronization problems. Code synchronization, which is either sequence or pattern synchronization, might be obtained from separately transmitted pilot or timing signals. However, to reduce the cost in power and overhead, most spread-spectrum receivers achieve code synchronization by processing the received signal.
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Torrieri, D. (2015). Chapter 4 Code Synchronization. In: Principles of Spread-Spectrum Communication Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14096-4_4
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