Direct conversion receivers (DCRs) are an effective means to obtain user terminals with reduced cost, size, and power consumption. Their major drawback is the possible insertion of I/Q imbalances in the demodulated signal, which can seri- ously degrade the performance of conventional synchronization algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the problem of carrier frequency offset (CFO) recovery in an OFDM receiver equipped with a DCR front-end. Our approach is based on the best linear unbiased estimation (BLUE) theory and aims at jointly estimating the CFO, the useful signal component, and its mirror image. In doing so, we exploit knowledge of the pilot symbols transmitted within a conventional repeated training preamble appended in front of each data packet. Two solutions are proposed, and both of them provides the CFO in closed-form, thereby avoiding any grid-search procedure. The accuracy of the proposed methods is assessed in a scenario compliant with the 802.11a WLAN standard. Compared with existing solutions, the novel schemes achieve improved performance at the price of a marginal increase of the processing load.

A BLUE-Based Approach to Frequency Recovery in OFDM Receivers with I/Q Imbalance

Antonio A. D’Amico;Michele Morelli;and Marco Moretti
2017-01-01

Abstract

Direct conversion receivers (DCRs) are an effective means to obtain user terminals with reduced cost, size, and power consumption. Their major drawback is the possible insertion of I/Q imbalances in the demodulated signal, which can seri- ously degrade the performance of conventional synchronization algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the problem of carrier frequency offset (CFO) recovery in an OFDM receiver equipped with a DCR front-end. Our approach is based on the best linear unbiased estimation (BLUE) theory and aims at jointly estimating the CFO, the useful signal component, and its mirror image. In doing so, we exploit knowledge of the pilot symbols transmitted within a conventional repeated training preamble appended in front of each data packet. Two solutions are proposed, and both of them provides the CFO in closed-form, thereby avoiding any grid-search procedure. The accuracy of the proposed methods is assessed in a scenario compliant with the 802.11a WLAN standard. Compared with existing solutions, the novel schemes achieve improved performance at the price of a marginal increase of the processing load.
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