Pilot-Less Sampling Frequency Synchronization Scheme for UWB-OFDM

Young-Hwan YOU  Kwang-Soo JEONG  Jae-Hoon YI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E92-A    No.6    pp.1520-1522
Publication Date: 2009/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E92.A.1520
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Digital Signal Processing
Keyword: 
UWB,  OFDM,  sampling frequency offset,  synchronization,  

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Summary: 
In this letter, a pilot-less sampling frequency offset estimation scheme is presented for ultra-wideband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (UWB-OFDM) systems. This scheme is based on the fact that two consecutive symbols convey the same information in the UWB-OFDM system, thus removing the need of pilot symbols. The performance of mean square error has been evaluated through simulation to verify the usefulness of the proposed scheme.