APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A FREQUENCY OFFSET IN OFDM

摘要

PURPOSE: An apparatus for frequency estimation at a OFDM system and a method thereof are provided to magnify frequency offset range by using a signal of period diagram in rayleigh fading channel environment. CONSTITUTION: An envelope curve regulating process of component generating unit(200) generates a component of envelop equality process. A integer frequency offset estimator(300) gets the fixed number frequency offset estimation value in which the sum between the consecutive period diagram makes have the maximum value. The prime number frequency offset estimator(400) gets the fraction frequency offset estimation value from the phase difference of the consecutive period diagram. The remainder frequency offset estimator(500) gets the frequency offset by using the fixed number frequency offset presumed and the period diagram corresponding to the fraction frequency offset.