Patent ID: 8284757

Claim:
A method of encoding cell-specific information in a telecommunication system, comprising: encoding cell-specific information by a synchronization code; and sending a synchronization signal comprising the synchronization code, wherein the synchronization code comprises a first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword generated from a first codeword ( c 1 , c 2 , … ⁢ ⁢ c i ⁢ ⁢ … ⁢ , c ⌈ M 2 ⌉ ) , where ⌈ M 2 ⌉ is the smallest integer not less than M/2, 0≦c i ≦N, 1≦i≦M for all i, M, N are positive integers, and the repetitive structure of the first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword is given by repeating the value of at least one codeword element of the first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword in at least one other codeword element position within the first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword.