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Low-complexity Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation using A Novel Region Boundary for OFDM-based WLAN Systems

영역 경계 기법을 사용한 OFDM기반 WLAN 시스템의 반송파 주파수 오프셋 추정 기법

  • Received : 2009.08.10
  • Accepted : 2010.03.15
  • Published : 2010.03.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation algorithm for OFDM based wireless LAN, IEEE 802.11a. The complexity of the arctangent operation to calculate the argument of auto-correlation for CFO estimation is reduced by a novel range pointer method. The proposed algorithm estimates fine CFO value first and then based on the fine CFO value, simple criteria is used for the boundary decision of integer CFO estimation. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is slightly better than the conventional method while the computational complexity is reduced by 50%. Furthermore, the proposed method can be easily implemented for the low complex next generation MIMO-OFDM based WLAN systems.

본 논문에서는 OFDM 기반의 WLAN시스템인 IEEE802.11a 표준의 반송파 주파수 오프셋(CFO) 추정 기법에 있어 영역 분할 기법을 통해 복잡도를 낮추는 기법을 제안한다. OFDM 기반의 시스템에서 CFO을 추정하기 위한 자기 상관연산에 사용되는 아크탄젠트 연산을 절반으로 감소시킬 제안된 기법은 소수부 CFO 추정을 먼저 연산한 뒤 그 값과 간단한 영역 분리 기법을 통하여 정수부 CFO 추정의 복잡도를 낮출 수 있다. 제안된 기법은 복잡도가 낮아짐에도 불구하고 성능은 기존의 기법을 능가하는 것을 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 알 수 있다. 또한 제안된 기법은 복잡도가 차세대 MIMO-OFDM 기반의 무선 LAN 시스템에도 쉽게 적용될 수 있다.

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