An efficient estimator for OFDM integer frequency offset synchronization

Author

Chen, Chen ; Li, Jiandong ; Zhao, Linjing

Author_Institution

State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1360

Abstract

An efficient estimator for integer frequency offset estimation of OFDM systems is derived, which is based on maximum likelihood (ML) technique and exploits the differential information between two consecutive blocks of OFDM data symbols in frequency domain. The reason why the proposed ML estimator has better performance than the conventional method is analyzed. How to select the differential sequence is also studied. By computer simulations, the effects of the various parameters such as length of cyclic prefix, value of integer frequency offset and differential PN sequence on the performances of the two estimators are evaluated, and the performance of the ML estimator is compared with that of the conventional method for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and a multipath fading channel. The simulation results are in good agreement with the analytical study.

Keywords

AWGN; OFDM modulation; fading channels; frequency estimation; maximum likelihood estimation; multipath channels; OFDM system; additive white Gaussian noise channel; cyclic prefix; integer frequency offset synchronization; maximum likelihood technique; multipath fading channel; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; AWGN; Additive white noise; Computer simulation; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency estimation; Frequency synchronization; Maximum likelihood estimation; OFDM; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2004. PIMRC 2004. 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8523-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2004.1373920

Filename

1373920