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Abstract Wireless communication is the key area of research with increasing demand of high data rate applications at a
low cost. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising solution for this problem. It is a multi
carrier modulation and as well as a multiplexing technique proposed for 3G, 4G, LTE-A systems to support high data rate
applications in a fading environment. Many problems linked with the multi carrier transmission like phase variations and
Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) are prominent. In this paper we analyze CFO and its effect in detail for OFDM symbol and
then describe techniques to estimate CFO. The estimation techniques cover both domains; time and frequency for OFDM
system. The simulations results are analyzed and presented in this paper are performed in MATLAB.
,
transfer of information. In this technique different by , where shows the frequency
parameters of high frequency carrier signal is varied like offset and are the carrier frequencies at the
amplitude, frequency and phase etc. which gives birth to transmitter and receiver end respectively. Changing
velocity is associated with the Doppler shift. Thus the
Amplitude Modulation (AM), Frequency Modulation (FM), relative velocity between transmitter and receiver dictates
Phase Modulation (PM) respectively [2]. These are analog the frequency shift in the carrier frequency which
modulation schemes and in todays world everything is
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1
2. Effects of CFO
9 ! < 5 .! .! ( )*+%2,=>3/" = 8 !
;
%&'
Normalized CFO ( ) can be broken down into Fractional
CFO ( ) which also known as FFO and into Integer CFO After taking the FFT of equation 2 we have received signal
which is affected by FFO and can be written as:
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( ) which usually known as IFO [3]. Mathematically it can
9 .! <9 !( #)*+,%/"
be written as:
%&
2.1 Integer Frequency Offset (IFO) After putting the value of received signal we get the
C .!
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distortion. As described earlier that ICI occurs due to FFO
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subcarriers, the interference is being represented by C .! in ( )+> 2"#$3/"
< 5 @!
which can eliminate the orthogonality between the
; B DE 2F2@ . 3/;33
A&'
AG,
B @! B (
above equation and includes ICI from other subcarrier to
)+2A#,32"#$3/"3
CFO=0
1
0.5
-0.5
-1
-0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
CFO=0.01
1
0.5
-0.5
-1
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
CFO=0.05
1
0.5
-0.5
-1
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
CFO=0.3
1
0.5
-0.5
-1
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
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3. CFO Estimation Techniques causes the phase distortion in the OFDM symbol which can
] ^ E! ^ E!!\`
bringing together two sampled OFDM blocks. This will
prove helpful in increasing the range of the CFO.
Lets suppose we denote the ratio of OFDM symbol to the Whereadenote the number of pilot tones,^ E! denotes the
location of the E/0 pilot tone, and ^ E! shows the pilot
repetitive length of the pattern by an integer T. Then we can
tone located at^ E! in the frequency domain at the b/0
estimate the CFO by using this integer T by the following
equation:
symbol period. In the same way we can develop a
"/ #$
T
mathematical expression for Fine CFO as:
IJK L < M ! M ;/T!P
2F 1
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%&' W IJK [\< 9
2F. T XY . T
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This gives an estimation range of| | S T/2, which depends
] ^ E!, UW V ! 9 ^ E!, UW V !
upon the controllable factor of T. As the value of T
decrease the estimation range of CFO decreases and vice ] ^ E! ^ E!!\`
versa [7].
One main disadvantage in the case of TS is that the value of In the tracking mode we estimate the W first and then
Mean Square Error (MSE) increase as we widen our CFO compensate the CFO accordingly.
range. This is due to reduction in the correlation samples by
a factor of 1/T. The solution to this problem is to calculate 4. Results and Analysis
average of all the estimates over repetitive short periods
which will reduce the amount of MSE without affecting the The first and foremost technique we use for
estimation range. synchronization is done by exploiting the OFDM symbol;
the least complexity as no overhead is required then the complexity is increased in Moose and Classen.
CFO Estimation
-2
10
CP-based technique
Moose (Preamble-based)
Classen (Pilot-based)
-3
10
-4
10
MSE
-5
10
-6
10
-7
10
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
SNR[dB]
5. Conclusion [3] Yong Soo Cho, Jaekwon Kim, Won Young Yang, Chung-Gu Kang,
MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communication with MATLAB, John Wiley &
Sons (Asia), Singapore, 2010.
OFDM is best for its higher data rates and low BER but its
[4] Jun Wu, Qun Zhou and K.K.M.Cheng, A Joint Estimation Algorithm
implementation requires special attention. CFO and STO
of Symbol Timing and Carrier Offset in OFDM Systems, Vehicular
estimation is the key to successful communication. Its Technology Conference, 2001. Vol 1, pp 712-716.
valid in every Communication system but OFDM is
[5] S. Younis, A. Al-Dweik, C. C. Tsimenidis, B. S. Sharif and A. Hazmi,
particularly more vulnerable. Different CFO estimation The Effect of Timing Errors on Frequency Offset Estimation in OFDM
techniques are discussed in the paper along with their Systems, International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information
Technology (ISSPIT), 2011, pp. 202-206.
merits and demerits. Moreover, this entirely depends on the
requirements and correspondingly resources are employed [6] Sankassa B. Senevirathna, Chandimal Jayawardena, Sumudu S. Perera,
Chandima L. Perera, Dhanushka Ranasignhe, Sureni R. Wijerathna ,
to get the required performance threshold. Classen Thisara N. Bandara, Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDM
Estimation technique is much more efficient and shown in System using Extended Kalman Filter, 4th International Conference on
the paper to work better. Information and Automation for Sustainability, 2008, pp. 351-354.