Method and device for providing timing information in a wireless communication system

A method and a device for providing timing information within a wireless communication system are described. The timing information is extracted from a received transmit signal. The method comprises the steps of providing a training signal on the receiver side relating to a known signal portion of the transmit signal, scaling the training signal, jointly quantizing the real part and the imaginary part of each training value of the training signal, correlating one or more parts of the received transmit signal with the quantized training signal to obtain one or more correlation results, and determining the timing information on the basis of the correlation results.