An Improved Autocorrelation Based Single Frequency Estimator with Reduced Complexity

Abstract

This paper proposes an improved single frequency estimator for flat fading channels. The proposed carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimator decreases the number of computations in the calculation of the autocorrelation function (AF) when compared to AF-based conventional estimators. The results shown that the proposed estimator achieves better performance than the existing estimators. Furthermore, the performance of proposed method has been observed to lie very close to the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB).