• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2008년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.437-440
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• 2008

In this paper, we present and analyze a robust frequency offset estimation scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over radio communication channels. When there exists frequency offset, the loss of orthogonality occurs and the interference problem among several subcarriers in OFDM signals is introduced. The guard interval of OFDM signals is employed for estimating the frequency offset. Furthermore, in order to enhance the frequency offset estimation performance, a ternary sequence is utilized. A frequency offset is estimated based on the synchronized correlator output. The proposed frequency offset estimation scheme can be applied to track the carrier frequency offset of OFDM systems.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.3100-3102
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose to a robust frequency offset estimation method of OFDM signals. A carrier frequency offset may be decomposed into an integer multiple of the subcarrier spacing and a residual frequency offset. Fractional part of frequency offset is obtained by using the maximum likelihood estimation(MLE) method. And we use the correlation of the samples at the output of the discrete Fourier transform(DFT) to estimate integer part of frequency offset. The result shows that the estimation frequency offset is almost linear to frequency offset. We propose to an improved estimation error variance of the carrier frequency offset estimation. The proposed estimator has better performance than the conventional ones in terms of error variance and tracking range.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.255-258
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• 2005

A blind-mode integer frequency offset estimation algorithm is proposed for an OFDM system. Imperfect integer frequency offset estimation causes ambiguity in the data sub-carrier position. Morelli's blind integer frequency offiet estimation algorithm exploits the likelihood function by comparing the power in sub-carriers. It, however, shows performance degradation when there is the fractional frequency offset. The proposed algorithm solves this by using interpolation in the frequency domain. In this algorithm, it is exploited that the effect of the frequency offset is shown as a shift of power spectrum. By calculating the covariance of over-sampled samples, most approximate samples to integer point are obtained. It enables integer frequency offset estimation less affected by fractional frequency offset.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제24권4E호
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• pp.152-157
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• 2005

In this paper, a new data-aided joint phase and frequency estimator, which has very low computational complexity, is proposed and its variances of phase and frequency estimates are derived. To estimate the phase and frequency offset, first of all, the overall observation interval is divided into same length sub-intervals, and then phase estimates are independently computed based on symbols of the each sub-intervals. To be continue the sequence of computed phase estimates, proper integer multiples of $2{\pi}$ are added to (or subtracted from) the computed phase estimates, which is called linearized phase estimate. The phase offset of the proposed joint estimator is estimated by averaging the linearized phase estimates and the frequency offset by averaging the differences between consecutive linearized phase estimates. The variance of the proposed phase offset estimate is same to MCRB of phase if there is no frequency offset, but it is smaller than MCRB of phase if there is frequency offset. However, the variance of the proposed frequency offset estimate is bigger by at least 0.5 dB than MCRB of frequency with the same observation interval.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 다중 경로 페이딩 채널을 고려한 환경에서 디지털 M/W전송 시스템의 동기에 관한 모의 시뮬레이터를 구성하여 주파수 동기를 수행하였고, 송신단과 수신단의 주파수 허용 편차(오실레이터 간 오차 범위)로 발생되는 주파수 옵셋에 보상 알고리즘을 적용하여 신호 성좌도(constellation)의 성능 개선 정도를 평가하였다. 성능 분석 결과, 송 수신단의 주파수 허용 편차가 큰 상태에서는 주파수 옵셋을 보상해도 주파수 허용 편차가 이미 크기 때문에 잔류 주파수의 영향을 상대적으로 많이 받게 됨을 알 수 있었다. 결과적으로 송수신단의 주파수 허용 편차에 따라 잔류 주파수 옵셋이 시스템 성능에 큰 영향을 미치게 됨을 알 수 있었다. 본 결과물은 향후 방송중계용 시스템의 대역 이전 시 필요한 주파수 동기 기준으로 활용 가능할 것이다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권2C호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 직교 주파수 분할 다중화 (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: OFDM) 시스템에서 주기도표를 이용한 새로운 주파수 옵셋 추정 기법을 제안하였다. 기존 Ren 기법에서는 잡음이 존재하는 환경에서 실제 주파수 옵셋과 정수 주파수 옵셋 추정치의 차이가 Ren 기법의 소수 및 나머지 주파수 옵셋 추정 단계에서 추정할 수 있는 범위보다 큰 경우가 자주 존재하여, 기법의 성능을 떨어뜨리는 문제점이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 Ren 기법의 소수 주파수 옵셋 추정 단계에서의 보상 범위보다 더 넓은 범위를 보상하는 새로운 주파수 옵셋 추정 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 주파수 옵셋 추정 기법은 Ren 기법의 소수 주파수 옵셋 추정 단계보다 넓은 추정 범위를 갖기 때문에, 잡음이 있는 환경에서 Ren 기법이 전혀 보상할 수 없었던 주파수 옵셋과 정수 주파수 옵셋 추정치의 차이를 보상할 수 있다. 모의실험 결과, 전체 주파수 옵셋 추정 성능이 Ren 기법보다 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1995년도 학술대회
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• pp.63-67
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• 1995

This paper proposes a new frequency offset correction technique for OFDM receivers on a frequency-selective fading channel. The frequency offset in the OFDM signals is known to introduce an interchannel interference among the multiple subcarriers, which degrades the receiver performance severely. In order to reduce the frequency offset, this paper describes an algorithm with two stages: acquisition and tracking. At both stages the algorithm oversamples the received OFDM signals. At the acquisition stage the frequency offset is reduced to half or less than the intercarrier spacing by matching the sign patterns of even and odd samples. Next, at tracking stage the frequency offset is compensated by a frequency detector which is controlled by the correlation of the even and odd sample sets. From the results, it is found that the proposed algorithm can correct the frequency offset even if the initial offset exceeds one half of th eintercairrers spacing.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.972-983
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• 1996

This paper proposes a new technique for frequency offset correction for OFDM systems on a frequency selective fading channel. Frequency offset in OFDM introduces interchannel interference among the multiple subcarriers of OFDM signal. To compensate the interference, this paper describes an algorithm with two stages:acquisition and tracking. At both stages, the proposed algorithm oversamples the received OFDM signal to obtain a couple of demodulated symbol sets. At acquisition stage the frequency offset is reduced to half or less of the intercarrier spacings by matching the sign pattern of each element of the sets. Next, at tracking stage the frequency offset is corrected with a frequency detector which is controlled by the correlation of the two sets. It is shown that the proposed algorithm can correct the frequency offset in the event of uncertainty in the initial offset that exceeds one half of the intercarrier spacing. In addition, the proposed algorithm is robust to transmitted symbols and channel characteristics by using oversampled symbol sets.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.192-197
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• 2007

We analyze the performance of code division multiple access (CDMA) system with multicarrier (MC) that employs precoding in synchronous downlink channels. Even though considerable efforts are undergoing for frequency offset estimation and correction, it is inevitable for the system to bear the remaining frequency offset. Therefore it is important to predict accurately the system performance in the presence of the residual frequency offset. We obtain the bit error rate (BER) performance in terms of the number of users, the spreading factor, the number of sub-carriers, and frequency offset. We assume that the spreading factor is equal to the number of sub-carriers, although we can generalize the case. The simulation results show that the BER of MC-CDMA with precoding shows a performance that varies with frequency offset as well as system loading.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권8C호
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• pp.627-632
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• 2008

시간 오차는 직교 주파수 분할 다중화 (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: OFDM) 기술에 기반한 무선랜 (wireless local area network: WLAN) 시스템에서 주파수 옵셋 추정 시, 오류를 일으키는 원인들 중 하나이다. 시간 오차가 주파수 옵셋 추정 시에 미치는 영향을 줄이기 위하여 몇몇 연구가 진행되어 왔지만, 대부분의 주파수 옵셋 추정 기법들은 시간 오차 범위에 대한 사전 정보를 미리 알고 있다는 가정 하에 연구됨으로써, 실제 시스템에 적용되지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 시간 오차에 대한 정보를 요구하지 않고 두 개의 연속적인 상관 값 표본 사이에 차동 결합 기법을 적용함으로서, 실제 시스템에 적용 가능한 새로운 정수 주파수 옵셋 추정 기법을 제안하였다. 모의실험 결과, 제안한 기법은 시간 오차 범위에 대한 정보를 요구하지 않기 때문에, 시간 오차 분산에 강인하며, 또한 시간 오차의 범위를 정확하게 모르는 경우, 평균적으로 기존의 기법보다 더 나은 성능을 보였다.