Improved Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Algorithms for PUCCH Format 1 in LTE-Advanced

Abstract

Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) is an important narrow-band channel in LTE-Advanced system, which carries the uplink control information, such as acknowledge/non-acknowledge (ACK/NACK) bits, downlink channel quality indicator (CQI), HARQ-ACK feedback information, and it requires much higher transmission quality than the other channels. With the aid of orthogonal CDMA, multiple users share the same time-frequency resource, the multiuser interference has been the main factor that limits the transmission quality of the control information [1]. In the high-speed mobile scenario, there exists a large Doppler frequency shift, which leads to loss of code orthogonality and also introduces inter-carrier interference (ICI) within a single SCFDMA symbol. Besides, the multiuser interference in high-speed mobile environment is severe. In this paper, the carrier frequency offset estimation algorithms are analyzed, and a double-iteration carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation algorithm is proved to perform the best for PUCCH Format 1 in high-speed mobile scenario. The estimation process is achieved by coarse estimation and fine estimation, which enlarges the estimation range and improves the estimation accuracy.