A NOVEL INTEGER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATOR FOR OFDM

One of the principal disadvantages of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing （OFDM） is very sensitive to carrier frequency offset. The integer frequency offset has no effect on the orthogonality among the subcarriers, but it causes a circular shift and phase rotation of the received data symbols sequence, resulting in a Bit Error Rate（BER） of 0.5. In this paper, a novel integer frequency offset estimator for OFDM is derived based on maximum likelihood estimation technique and exploration of the differential relation between two consecutive OFDM data symbol sequences in frequency domain. Its performance is compared with the conventional method by computer simulations for the additive white Gaussian noise channel and a multipath fading channel. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed estimator is better than the conventional estimator.     

PILOT－BASED FREQUENCY OFFSET DETECTION SCHEME IN OFDM SYSTEM

The frequency offset information is extracted from local pilot amplitude characteristics, which suffer much less distortion in frequency-selective fading channels than those utilizing frequency domain correlation techniques. Simulation shows that the performance of this scheme has better performance than the existing frequency domain pilot-based frequency offset detection scheme.     

Propagator based closed-form blind carrier frequency offset estimation for OFDM systems

Most of the blind Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing （OFDM） Carrier Frequency Offset （CFO） estimators necessitate large number of samples to ensure the estimation accuracy. However, the number of samples can not be selected too large because of the carrier offset drift. In this letter, a new closed form algorithm for blind OFDM CFO estimation in frequency-selective channel is proposed. This method utilizes the propagator obtained from data matrix and the diagonal loading technique, thus it has better performance even only using one or two OFDM blocks. Furthermore, the range of the CFO estimation which can be handled is overall transmission spectral. Simulation results confirm its effectiveness.     

Robust and fast frequency offset estimation for OFDM based satellite communication

A pilot-aided Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frequency offset estimator designed for satellite communication system is proposed in the paper. The estimator focuses on the acquisition of the integer part of carrier frequency offset and the acquisition range is as large as the whole signal bandwidth. Making full use of the phase difference between received pilot and local referential pilot, a fast estimation is obtained. Compared with existing method, our method can also work well even in SNR as low as 0dB. Simulations verify the good performance of our method.     

A novel estimation method of timing offset for OFDM based WLAN systems

The conventional timing synchronization methods based on time domain correlation have the problems of timing metric plateau in Additive White Gaussian Noise(AWGN) channel and estimation error in multipath fading channel. To resolve the problems, this paper proposes a novel timing metric using the characteristics of long training symbols in IEEE802.11a and a new timing recovery method based on the new timing metric for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM)-based WLAN systems. The proposed timing metric is defined as a sum of absolute values of the imaginary parts of all the subcarrier samples. It exhibits a unique characteristic that is very sensitive to the true synchronization point since it has minimum value at the true synchronization point and maximum around the true synchronization point. The simulation results show that the performance of timing synchronization is significantly improved, as a result, the probability of error estimation is lower than 10^-4 when Signal-to-Noise Ratio(SNR) is more than 10dB.     

稳健的OFDM系统载波频率捕获算法

本文提山了一种新的应用于OFDM系统的载波频偏捕获算法。算法利用训练帧结构的循环重复性特点，剥离信道的影响和定时偏差的影响，完成频偏的捕获。同时本文算法训练帧既可以在时域添加，也可以在频域添加，增加了算法的灵活性。仿真结果表明，算法具有稳健，精度较高，计算量较少等优点。     

基于最大似然算法的OFDM频偏估计研究

由于OFDM的高频谱利用率和传输可靠性均是以子载波间的正交性为基础的,因此对OFDM符号的频率偏差进行有效的估计和补偿具有非常重要的意义。由于多载波系统几乎都采用插入循环前缀的方法来消除符号间干扰,引入循环前缀后,每对间隔为N的样值之间具有相关性,因此利用循环前缀所携带的信息,采用最大似然估计方法进行频率偏差的估计,最后通过Monte Carlo方法对其进行了仿真验证,结果显示估计频偏与实际频偏的偏差很小。     

Statistical approximation based fine frequency synchronization for OFDM systems

The paper proposes a novel approach for fine frequency synchronization of OFDM syn- chronization systems in multi-path channels. Maximum Likelihood (ML) function of frequency offsets including integral and decimal parts in frequency domain is developed according to the law of great number to eliminate the noise impact of the signal. When the timing delay close to the actual time, the proposed function produces a deep valley indicating frequency offset when large Valley-Square- Error (VSE) appears. Coarse timing offset can also be detected when function’s Valley-Square-Error (VSE) is maximized. Simulation results shows that the proposed algorithm gives very robust estimation of frequency offset, and a coarse timing offset estimation.     

Iterative receiver for OFDM systems based on semi-blind channel estimation

In this paper we propose two iterative algorithms of joint channel estimation and symbol detection for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing （OFDM） systems. In which, superimposed pilot scheme is adopted and an initial Channel State Information （CSI） is obtained by employing a first-order statistic. In each subsequent iteration, we propose two algorithms to update the CSI. The Mean Square Error （MSE） of channel estimation and Bit Error Rate （BER） performance are given and simulation results demonstrate that the iterative algorithm using method B has good performance approaching the ideal condition.     

Joint estimation of carrier frequency offset, dc offset and I/Q imbalance for OFDM systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with direct-conversion receiver (DCR) are vulnerable to carrier frequency offset (CFO), dc offset (DCO) and in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) imbalance. In this paper, we propose blind estimator for joint estimation of CFO, DCO and I/Q imbalance in OFDM systems with DCR. Simulation results show that performance of proposed estimator approaches Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) asymptotically, which demonstrates its effectiveness.     

A SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM FOR HF （HIGH FREQUENCY） BROADBAND OFDM SYSTEM

In this letter, a kind of associated synchronization algorithm which is suitable for HF （High Frequency） broadband OFDM （Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing） system is presented based on describing and constructing the GMW （Gorden, Mills and Welch） sequence. The algorithm is based on the Schmidl and Minn＇s symbol timing principle, the constructed GMW sequence is transmitted and disposed, and the synchronization is adjudicated using the correlation of GMW sequence. The simulation result indicates that this algorithm has high performance synchronization ability under the low SNR （Signal to Noise Ratio） at two different kinds of channel models.     

Non-data-aided carrier-frequency offset estimation for pulse-shaping OFDM/OQAM systems

In this paper we consider the problem of blind carrier-frequency offset (CFO) estimation for pulse-shaping orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems based on offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM). In particular, under the assumption of low signal-to-noise ratio, three maximum-likelihood (ML) CFO estimators for non-dispersive channels are derived. Due to their significant computational complexity a more feasible closed-form CFO synchronization algorithm is considered. The performance of the derived blind estimators is assessed via computer simulations and compared with that of a blind CFO estimator previously proposed in the literature, exploiting the second-order cyclostationarity property of the OFDM/OQAM signal.     

P×N IFFT FOR OFDM-BASED UWB SYSTEM

I. Introduction Ultra-WideBand (UWB)[1] is a promising tech-nology to achieve transmission rate up to more than 1Gbps. Orthogonal Frequency Division Mul-tiplexing (OFDM)-based schemes[2,3] receive great interests for high speed UWB transmission. In a typi…     

P N IFFT FOR OFDM-BASED UWB SYSTEM

In this letter, P × N-point IFFT is proposed to replace the N-point IFFT and analog frequency conversion in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based Ultra-WideBand (UWB) system, and a new algorithm, named fast P × N-point IFFT, is designed to reduce the complexity of the P × N-point IFFT in the proposed scheme.     

A novel adaptive algorithm of CPE correction for OFDM systems

On the basis of the analysis of the effect of PHase Noise (PHN) and Common Phase Error (CPE) on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems, a cost function is constructed. By the cost function and the idea of Least-Mean-Square (LMS) adaptive algorithm, the adaptive algorithm for the correction of CPE is presented. The simulations have been performed to investigate the performance for tracking PHN and estimating CPE, the results show that the algorithm performs soundly.     

低复杂度的OFDM粗频偏估计算法

提出了一种低复杂度的OFDM粗频偏估计方法,这种方法综合利用单个OFDM训练符号中的相位信息和幅度信息,先通过一个能量滑动窗进行频偏搜索确定可能发生的频偏,然后再根据符号相位相关性进行判断。仿真结果表明,本算法在多径衰落信道下,与传统算法性能保持相当的同时具有运算量小的优点。     

OFDM系统中一种新的导频辅助信道估计算法

无线OFDM系统中基于导频辅助的信道估计必须折衷考虑算法性能与算法复杂度。该文提出了一种新的信道估计算法。新算法利用维纳滤波与内插滤波相结合以降低信道估计的运算复杂度。分析和仿真结果显示,新算法在保持获得良好估计性能情况下,有效地降低了信道估计算法的复杂度。     

Subspace-based noise variance and SNR estimation for MIMO OFDM systems

This paper proposes a subspace-based noise variance and Signal-to-Noise Ratio （SNR） estimation algorithm for Multi-Input Multi-Output （MIMO） wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing （OFDM） systems. The special training sequences with the property of orthogonality and phase shift orthogonality are used in pilot tones to obtain the estimated channel correlation matrix. Partitioning the observation space into a delay subspace and a noise subspace, we achieve the measurement of noise variance and SNR. Simulation results show that the proposed estimator can obtain accurate and real-time measurements of the noise variance and SNR for various multipath fading channels, demonstrating its strong robustness against different channels.     

Joint estimation of carrier frequency offset and power delay profile for MIMO-OFDM systems

This paper develops a Cyclic Prefix（CP）based joint Maximum-Likelihood（ML）estimation algorithm of Carrier Frequency Offset（CFO）and Power Delay Profile（PDP）for Multi-Input Multi-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing（MIMO-OFDM）systems.However,the exact solution of the joint ML estimation is very complex since it needs a search over a multi-dimensional domain.Thus a simplified method is proposed to estimate the CFO and the PDP iteratively via the alternating-projection method which could induce the multidimensional search problem to a sequence of simple one-dimensional searches.Simulations show that the proposed algorithm is more accurate and robust than the existing algorithms.