Time-variant Doppler frequency estimation and compensation for mobile OFDM systems

In mobile OFDM communication systems, Doppler spread leads to the loss of orthogonality between the sub-carriers, limiting the achievable throughput of the moving transceivers. In this paper, the effect of Doppler spread in Rayleigh fading channels is investigated, and a method of time-variant Doppler frequency estimation and compensation is proposed for mobile OFDM systems. Computer simulation results are included to support our development.