A Novel Integer Frequency Offset Estimation Method for OFDM Based on Preamble

Abstract

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is very sensitive to frequency offset. Although the existence of integer frequency offset in OFDM will not destroy the orthogonality between subcarriers, it will cause a cyclic shift of the frequency domain data after FFT transformation at the receiving end, which will affect the demodulation of data. In this paper, we propose a novel integer frequency offset estimation method based on the similarity property of adjacent subcarriers of the preamble. This method not only guarantees the original accuracy and performance of the conventional method but also achieves less resource consumption and lower computational complexity.