2012 Volume E95.B Issue 12 Pages 3911-3914
In OFDM systems, the correlation of cyclic prefix (CP) with its corresponding part at the end of the symbol can be used to estimate the maximum Doppler spread. However, the estimation accuracy of this CP based method is seriously affected by the inter-symbol interference (ISI) generated in the multipath channel. In this letter, we propose an enhanced CP based method which is immune to the ISI and can hence obtain an unbiased estimate of the auto-correlation function in multipath channels.