MIMO-OFDM Iterative Time - Frequency Synchronization

This paper addresses an iterative expectation-maximization (EM) time-frequency synchronization algorithm joint with channel estimation for MIMO-OFDM systems in frequency selective fading channels. The receivers iterates between detection and estimation. For each iteration, we calculate first the expectation of ODFM symbols by using a posteriori probabilities provided by MAP decoder and second we maximise a proposed metric to obtain both frequency offset and then symbol-timing. The channel can be identified by means of these estimates. This algorithm can work in transmission mode and thus can be used to estimate the residual errors or track the change of the parameters. The performance of the proposed synchronization approach, in terms bit error rate and mean square error of the estimated frequency offset, is shown.