A Novel Estimation Method for Integer Frequency Offset in Wireless OFDM Systems

Ren et al. presented an efficient carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which has an estimation range as large as the bandwidth of the OFDM signal and achieves high accuracy without any constraint on the structure of the training sequence. However, its detection probability of the integer frequency offset (IFO) rapidly varies according to the fractional frequency offset (FFO) change. In this paper, we first analyze the Ren-s method and define two criteria suitable for detection of IFO. Then, we propose a novel method for the IFO estimation based on the maximum-likelihood (ML) principle and the detection criteria defined in this paper. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the Ren-s method in terms of the IFO detection probability irrespective of a value of the FFO.

Authors:

• Taeung Yoon
• Youngpo Lee
• Chonghan Song
• Na Young Ha
• Seokho Yoon

Keywords:

• Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
• integer frequency offset
• estimation
• training symbol

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