Patent ID: 8693460

Claim:
A method for controlling downlink synchronization of a terminal device with a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving from the wireless network over a radio interface a data signal comprising a representation of at least one data block; writing data samples obtained from the received data signal to a reception data buffer; establishing a time-address mapping indicative of an association of a reference time value of an internal clock of the terminal device with a reference address in the reception data buffer; determining an address of one or more data samples representing the received at least one data block in the reception data buffer based on the time-address mapping, said determining comprising detecting a predefined synchronization pattern in the data samples written to the reception data buffer and determining a reference time value of the internal clock based on an address of the detected synchronization pattern; establishing a time-address mapping indicative of an association of the reference time value of the internal clock with the address of the detected synchronization pattern; and initiating a block-wise reading of the at least one data block from the reception data buffer based on the determined address.