Designing a Robust Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Scheme for Meeting Target Decoding Performance in an OFDM System

Abstract

In a target communication system, a delicately designed frequency offset estimation scheme is required to meet certain decoding performance. In this paper, we proposed at wo-step estimation scheme, coarse and residual, with different value of an time interval parameter. A result of RF conduction test shows that the proposed method has an 1dB gain of SNR compared to coarse-only estimator. A result of the commercial test also indicates the proposed method outperforms coarse-only estimator especially in low SNR condition.