Successive Interference Cancellation-Based Weighted Least-Squares Estimation of Carrier and Sampling Frequency Offsets for WLANs

A successive interference cancellation (SIC)-based weighted least-squares (WLS) estimation for the carrier frequency offset (CFO) and the sampling frequency offset (SFO) is presented for wireless local area networks (WLANs) based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The proposed SIC-based WLS performs the estimation by exploiting the phase rotation in the frequency domain caused by the CFO and the SFO. SIC-based WLS estimates the CFO and the SFO successively instead of by traditional simultaneous estimation. The estimation of CFO based on the Taylor series is performed first, and then the WLS estimation of SFO based on successive cancellation of the CFO is carried out. The simulation results show that the SIC-based WLS can estimate the CFO and the SFO effectively. Compared to the WLS scheme, a performance improvement of more than 0.6 dB is achieved by SIC-based WLS, and nearly 10 percent of the complexity is reduced.