Likelihood Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Research Articles

Maximum likelihood carrier frequency offset estimation algorithm with adjustable frequency acquisition region

This study presents a simple yet effective carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation algorithm for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. At the transmitter, the proposed algorithm uses null subcarriers to render the OFDM signal periodic in the time domain. At the receiver, these periodic time samples become CFO-bearing signals, which can be adopted to develop the maximum likelihood (ML) CFO estimation algorithm accordingly. In addition to providing reliable and efficient CFO estimation, the proposed algorithm has an adjustable acquisition region linearly proportional to the order of the null subcarrier insertion scheme.

Blind Maximum Likelihood Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDM With Multi-Antenna Receiver

In this paper, based on the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion, we propose a blind carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with multi-antenna receiver. We find that the blind ML solution in this situation is quite different from the case of single antenna receiver. As compared to the conventional MUSIC-like CFO searching algorithm, our proposed method not only has the advantage of being applicable to fully loaded systems, but also can achieve much better performance in the presence of null subcarriers. It is demonstrated that the proposed method also outperforms several existing estimators designed for multi-antenna receivers. The theoretical performance analysis and numerical results are provided, both of which demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) under the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region.