Some Optimum and Suboptimum Frame Synchronizers for Binary Data in Gaussian Noise
P. Nielsen · IRE Transactions on Communications Systems · 1973
In this correspondence we investigate the performance of several optimum and suboptimum devices for locating a sync word in data corrupted by Gaussian noise. One suboptimum synchronizer, which is extremely simple to instrument, is shown to perform virtually optimally over the entire range of interesting signal-to-noise ratios.