Joint Time and Frequency Estimation for Multicarrier Transmission with Frequency Diversity

Hyun YANG
Young-Hwan YOU

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.9    pp.2617-2620
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.9.2617
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Transmission Systems and Transmission Equipment for Communications
Keyword: 
multicarrier,  timing estimation,  carrier frequency,  cyclic time shift,  frequency diversity,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes non-pilot-aided symbol timing and carrier frequency estimation methods in a multicarrier transmission system. To do this, multicarrier system uses a frequency diversity scheme over two consecutive data symbols with the combination of a cyclic time shift. Using the multicarrier signal equipped with frequency diversity, however, time and frequency are accurately estimated without any training symbol.