Making Carrier Frequency Offset an Advantage for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

Xiaojing Huang

ChinaCom2008-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Making Carrier Frequency Offset an Advantage for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

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    author={Xiaojing Huang},
    title={Making Carrier Frequency Offset an Advantage for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-WCN},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
    keywords={carrier frequency offset (CFO); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); frequency-selective fading; multipath diversity; linear precoding.},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685159}
}

Xiaojing Huang
Year: 2008
Making Carrier Frequency Offset an Advantage for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
CHINACOM2008-WCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685159

Xiaojing Huang¹^,*

1: School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Wollongong Wollongong, Australia

*Contact email: huang@uow.edu.au

Abstract

Contrary to the common belief that the carrier frequency offset (CFO) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system would adversely impact on system performance, this paper shows that the CFO actually has the effect of linear precoding among transmitted data symbols and hence can be exploited to improve the diversity performance over frequency-selective fading channels. With both analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, it is proved that an OFDM system with CFO equal to half of the subcarrier spacing can potentially achieve the performance of diversity order four by the maximum-likelihood detection and demonstrate a 5 dB improvement using the minimum mean squared error equalization.

Keywords: carrier frequency offset (CFO); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); frequency-selective fading; multipath diversity; linear precoding.

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685159