A blind estimation approach for symbol timing and carrier frequency offset

In this paper, the cyclostationarity of over-sampled signal in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems is studied. A blind symbol timing and carrier frequency offset estimation algorithm is presented based on the cyclic correlation. The proposed algorithm is computationally efficient, and asymptotically unbiased and consistent. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to some of the existing methods in terms of the mean square error (MSE) of the estimate.