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ABSTRACT isolate the frequency band where shifted received signal en-
ergy is quasi-null and which corresponds normally to the
This paper deals with frequency offset estimation in frequency offset.
OFDM systems. The proposed approach is based on adapted
The paper is organized as follow : in section 2, we
wavelet packet decomposition of the shifted received signal.
give the useful background (problem statement and wavelet
The binary tree is optimized according to a comparison be-
packet tool). In section 3, we develop the proposed ap-
tween decomposed signals energy in iterative manner. The
proach. Section 4 is devoted to performances analysis and
proposed approach is characterized by small number of it-
algorithm validation in noisy context.
erations, short wavelet packet filters and robustness against
additive noise power.
2. BACKGROUND
Keywords : Frequency offset, OFDM, wavelet packet,
tree selection, energy criterion 2.1. Problem statement
Fig. 1 presents the proposed algorithm for frequency off- 3.3. Frequency offset estimation
set estimation. The pass-band received signal R(t) is base-
band transformed by means of a local oscillator receiver First of all, we remind that when we get down at level l in
whose frequency is the carrier frequency fc with a random the tree, the approximation and detail coefficients take off
deviation ∆f0 . The resulting signal r(t) is filtered by a low- half of the band width of approximation an detail at level
pass filter whose cutoff frequency F0 is larger than maximal i − 1. At iteration i, we can estimate frequency offset in one
possible frequency offset [3]. The obtained signal r0 (t) is interval using the following equation :
then decomposed using wavelet packet in order to obtain an
adaptive binary-tree decomposition. We hence perform a X 1 X 1
signal-dependent partition of the frequency axis which per- Dfi 0 ∈ F0 , F0 (1 − ) . (1)
2i 2j
mits to isolate the frequency band characterizing the fre- i∈A j∈B
offset is equal to ∆f
128
0.02
relative error ε
4. SIMULATION RESULTS
0.015
ˆ
that ∆f0 fluctuates near real frequency offset (ligne diag-
onale). We also notice the evolution in stairs since the es- 0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
order of daubechies wavelet
timated frequency offset is calculated as the middle of the
latest interval ∆f0Imax . So, all frequency offset within this Fig. 4. Effect of the wavelet filter on the relative error of
interval are estimated by the same value. estimation.
0.03
2.5
2 0.025
1.5
0.02
1 db1
relative error
ˆ 0
Fig. 2. Evolution of the estimated frequency offset ∆f
db14
0.005
In Fig. 4, we show the effect of wavelet packet filters on the Fig. 5. Effect of the SN R on relative error of estimation.
relative error of estimation given by:
ˆ 0 − ∆f0 |
|∆f
= (3)
|∆f0 | 5. CONCLUSION
We consider the case of Daubechies filters with different
lengths [11]. We notice that increase when the filter order In this paper, a novel wavelet packet approach for frequency
increases. The best filter leading to lowest is Haar wavelet. offset estimation in OFDM systems is presented. It is based
It is characterized by the following low pass filter impulse on iterative signals decomposition according to a compari-
√
2 son between decomposed signals energy. The proposed ap-
response H = 2 [11]T . This is very important result since
proach is validated by simulation results in case of noisless
using Haar wavelet decreases the complexity of realization
and noisy context.
and improves rapidness of algorithm.
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