Improving OFDM Carrier Frequency Synchronization Using Cyclic Prefix

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the key technology of high speed communication systems which are widely used today. Small carrier frequency offset can make OFDM system performance fell sharply. So it needs very effective carrier frequency synchronization to make sure that the system works perfect. Seen from a large number of simulations, typical algorithm requires strict symbol timing. According to this characteristic, we proposed an improved carrier frequency synchronization algorithm using cyclic prefix. The improved algorithm can achieve better performance than typical algorithm in multipath fading channel. The precision of the improved algorithm under the same Signal Noise Ratio (SNR) is about 3 orders of magnitude higher than typical algorithm. We found that improved algorithm has more excellent performance in burst packet transmission mode.