Joint Estimation of CFO and Receiver I/Q Imbalance Using Virtual Subcarriers for OFDM Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we study the estimation of carrier frequency offset (CFO) in the presence of the receiver in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. By minimizing the energy of the samples on the virtual subcarriers, our proposed algorithm can jointly estimate the CFO and I/Q parameters using one OFDM block. When the CFO is small, a closed-form solution can be obtained. Simulation results show that our proposed method can provide a good performance for both of the I/Q and CFO estimation and it compares favorably with a recent method.