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Antenna-Array-Assisted Frequency Offset Estimation and Data Detection in an Uplink Multiuser MIMO-OFDM Interference Network

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Due to the popularity of IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless local area networks, the high-density deployment of access points and their serious mutual interference have become a pressing concern, and made both frequency acquisition and data detection even more difficult. In addition, improving the network coverage and scalability in the mesh mode of IEEE 802.16 wireless metropolitan area network, space and frequency information can provide abundant scheduling information under the configuration. In light of this, this paper presents an antenna-array-assisted algorithm to solve these two problems in a multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing interference network. The algorithm begins with the estimation of three channel parameters: frequency offsets, delays and angle selectivity. To make a good use of the array signal characteristics, these three parameters are estimated in a frequency/delay-angle-frequency/delay (FAF) tree structure, in which two frequency/delay estimations and one angle estimation are employed alternatively. One special feature in the FAF tree structure is that temporal filtering or spatial beamforming is invoked between the parameter estimations to decompose signals so as to enhance the estimation accuracy. Thereafter, based on these parameter estimates, a data detection procedure is developed to mitigate both multiple access interference (MAI) and co-channel interference (CCI). Simulations show that the proposed algorithm can provide satisfactory performance even in networks with MAIs and CCIs sharing the same frequency band.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Kuo-Hsiung Wu & Wen-Hsien Fang

  2. Ra-Link Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Jiunn-Tsair Chen

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This work was supported by National Science Council of R.O.C. under contracts NSC 97-2221-E-011-053.

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Wu, KH., Fang, WH. & Chen, JT. Antenna-Array-Assisted Frequency Offset Estimation and Data Detection in an Uplink Multiuser MIMO-OFDM Interference Network. Wireless Pers Commun 58, 215–237 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-009-9889-7

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