Hybrid scheme for CFO cancellation in OFDM systems

Abstract

In this paper, we combine maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) technique with improved sinc power (ISP) pulse shaping to cancel inter-carrier interference caused by carrier frequency offset in coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, thereby achieving an improved bit error rate (BER) performance as compared to the above two schemes. The BER performance of the OFDM system was checked for ISP pulse shaping alone, MLE technique with low pass filtering, and a hybrid scheme of MLE technique with ISP pulse shaping. It has been shown that, at normalized carrier frequency offset of 0.2 and BER of 10-5, the hybrid scheme with convolutional coding could achieve a BER performance improvement of around 1.78 and 4.83 dB, respectively, as compared to MLE technique with low pass filtering and ISP pulse shaping alone. © International Journal of Modelling and Simulation 2013.