Blind Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation in MIMO-OFDM

Ming LUO
Qinye YIN
Aifeng REN

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.10    pp.4117-4120
Publication Date: 2005/10/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.10.4117
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
MIMO-OFDM,  carrier frequency offset,  DOA matrix,  virtual carrier,  

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Summary: 
We propose a DOA-Matrix based blind CFO estimation method for a MIMO-OFDM system with Virtual Carriers. The method estimates CFO in closed-form by jointly exploiting the shift-invariant structure of time-domain signal received on multiple receive antennas. In contrast to previous training-based methods, the proposed method is bandwidth efficiency. We also present numerical simulation results for different transmit and receive antenna configurations and for different record lengths.