A combined timing and frequency synchronization and channel estimation for OFDM

This letter addresses training-signal-based combined timing and frequency synchronization and channel estimation for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems. The proposed scheme consists of two stages. At the first stage, coarse timing and frequency-offset estimates are obtained. Based on these estimates, a (coarse) channel response estimate is obtained. The timing and frequency-offset estimates at the second stage are obtained by maximum-likelihood (ML) realization based on a sliding observation vector. Then ML channel estimation is performed. A means of complexity reduction by an adaptive scheme is also presented. The simulation results show that the proposed combined approach performs quite well, and circumvents the problem of mismatch among individual synchronization tasks.

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