On-line Hybrid Cramer-Rao bound for oversampled dynamical phase and frequency offset estimation

This paper deals with the on-line estimation of a dynamical carrier phase and a frequency offset in a digital receiver. We consider a Brownian phase evolution with a linear drift in a Data Aided scenario. The proposed study is relative to the use of an oversampled signal model after matched filtering, leading to a coloured reception noise and a non-stationary power signal. We derive a closed-form expression of the Hybrid Cramer-Rao Bound (HCRB) for this estimation problem. We use a Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) function as shaping pulse. Our numerical results show the potential gain of using the oversampled signal for estimating the dynamical phase and frequency offset, obtaining better performances than using a classical synchronizer.