A computationally efficient sampling frequency offset estimation for OFDM-based digital terrestrial television systems

Sampling frequency offset (SFO) that occurs due to a sampling frequency mismatch between the transmitter and receiver oscillators is one of the main problem in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based digital terrestrial television (DTTV) system. The SFO can cause an intersymbol interference and an intercarrier interference that may degrade the performance of an OFDM system and result in high bit error rate. Since the value of SFO is usually very low (part per million scale), the SFO estimation is very susceptible to a noise. In this paper, we propose the estimation method that can minimize the influence of the noise in SFO estimation and also minimize the computational complexity. The performance of the proposed method has been verified with computer simulation. The computer simulation results show that the proposed sampling frequency offset estimation is more efficient in computational complexity compared to the conventional method to achieve the similar performance.