An Efficient Maximum Likelihood Carrier Frequency Offset Estimator for OFDM Using Null Subcarriers and Cyclic Prefix

Authors:
S. M. Sameer;Ratnam V. Raja Kumar
Affiliations:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, India 673601;Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India 721302
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Accurate estimation of carrier frequency offset (CFO) is an important requirement in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication systems. In this paper, we propose a hybrid procedure to accomplish this task efficiently. One of the key importance of the approach is the judicious combination of two independent estimators so as to reduce the bandwidth overhead and computational complexity over many conventional methods. It employs the cyclic prefix and a few null subcarriers, respectively, for the fractional and integer frequency offset estimations. We also propose a novel null subcarrier allocation scheme based on Fibonacci series. The range of frequency offset that can be estimated by the proposed technique is equal to the full OFDM bandwidth. Furthermore, performance of the proposed CFO estimator is mathematically analyzed by deriving an expression for the bit error probability of the receiver under Rayleigh fading channel and the Cramer-Rao lower bound for the mean square estimation error. For moderate SNRs, our approach is shown to greatly outperform some recently published methods in terms of BER performance, bandwidth overhead and receiver complexity.