Pilot-Aided Iterative Frequency Offset Estimation for Digital Video Broadcasting Systems

디지털 비디오 방송 시스템에서의 파일럿을 이용한 반복적 주파수 옵셋 추정방법

  • 이경택 (전자부품연구원 DxB.통신융합연구센터, 연세대학교 대학원 전기공학과) ;
  • 서종수 (연세대학교 전기전자공학과)
  • Published : 2007.05.31

Abstract

The main disadvantage of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is its sensitivity to carrier frequency offset and timing offset. This paper proposes a simple way of improving the performance of the integer frequency offset (IFO) estimator in OFDM-based digital video broadcasting (DVB) system. By modifying the conventional maximum likelihood (ML) estimator to have multi-stage estimation strategy, IFO estimator is derived. Simulations indicate that the proposed IFO estimator works robustly with reduced computational burden when compared to ML estimator.

OFDM(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) 시스템은 시간 동기 및 주파수 옵셋 추정 오차에 따라 시스템 성능이 좌우된다. 본 논문에서는, OFDM을 기반으로 한 디지털 비디오 방송(digital video broadcasting) 시스템을 위한 향상된 정수배 주파수 옵셋 추정 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 정수배 주파수 옵셋 추정기는 기존의 ML 추정기에 다단계 추정 방법을 적용하여 개선한 방법이다. 실험 결과를 통해, 제안된 주파수 옵셋 추정 방법이 기존의 ML 추정기에 비해 적은 연산량으로 향상된 주파수 옵셋 추정 성능을 가진다.

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