Apparatuses and methods for detecting a group delay in a communication system

A transceiver for a radio base station of a wideband communication system, wherein said transceiver is configured to detect a group delay for performing calibration and comprises a transmission part that includes a circuit that is configured to:

• split an available system bandwidth into multiple, J, groups of contiguous subcarriers, each group of contiguous subcarriers representing a subband of the available bandwidth;
• generate, for each subband, a constant amplitude zero auto correlation (CAZAC) calibration sequence having a predefined length, M, the CAZAC calibration sequence being generated in the time domain;
• convert each CAZAC calibration sequence into frequency domain by using an M-point fast fourier transformation (FFT) operation where M further represents the number of contiguous subcarriers for each subband;
• map each converted CAZAC calibration sequence into a dedicated subband;
• superimpose the mapped CAZAC calibration sequences to form a CAZAC calibration signal which is further transformed from the frequency domain into the time domain using an N-point inverse FFT (IFFT) operation, where N is a length of a symbol;
• append the transformed CAZAC calibration signal with a cyclic prefix (CP) to form a resulting CAZAC calibration signal;
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• upconvert the resulting CAZAC calibration signal to a carrier frequency prior to transmitting the upconverted resulting CAZAC calibration signal, said transmitted resulting CAZAC calibration signal passing through a radio frequency (RF) chain, which induces different group delays in subbands before reaching a receiver part of the transceiver.