APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET IN COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD

摘要

Provided are an apparatus and method for estimating carrier frequency offset in a communication terminal operating in a communication system supporting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA). More particularly, provided are a method of estimating carrier frequency offset in a communication terminal supporting DownLink (DL) Full Usage of SubChannel (FUSC) and DL Band-Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channel modes in a wireless communication system based on one of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.16d/e, Wireless Broadband (WiBro), and Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) standards, and a communication terminal performing the method. The apparatus includes: a phase difference calculator for calculating a phase difference between pilot symbols having the same linear phase among the pilot symbols of a received signal; a phase difference accumulator for accumulating the phase difference and generating a phase difference accumulation value; and a calculator for converting the phase difference accumulation value into a carrier frequency offset estimation value.