The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（OFDM） is currently used in long term evolution（LTE） system. The time offset estimation（TOE） and frequency offset estimation（FOE） of OFDM is essential in mobile communication base. According to the conventional cross correlation TOE and FOE algorithms, a new cross correlation computation was proposed to estimate the time offset and frequency offset for LTE uplink system, so that the time offset and frequency offset can be estimated simultaneously with low complexity. Compared with the conventional TOE and FOE algorithms, the simulation show that the proposed can reduce complexity and improve performance for FOE with good performance for TOE in additive white Gaussian noise（AWGN） and multipath channel.
Non-line-of-sight （NLOS） propagation is a major source of error for accurate time-of-arrival （TOA） location estimation. The two-step least square （LS） method, which does not need any information about the distribution of the NLOS error, has been studied in related researches to provide efficient location estimation of the mobile terminal （MT）. By observing the estimation of the error covariance matrix in the two-step LS method, this paper finds that the measured distances are more suitable than the initial estimated distances by maximum likelihood （ML） algorithm in NLOS environments. Moreover, by making use of the geometry relations among fixed terminals （FTs）, some measured distances which are corrupted by big NLOS errors may be reduced. Further, an iteration method can be adopted to further improve the performance of the algorithm. Accordingly, an improved algorithm based on the two-step LS method is proposed. Simulation results demonstrate that the improved algorithm has better performance than the two-step LS method and converges more quickly. Meanwhile, it is robust in different NLOS environments.
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） is one of the key techniques for long term evolution （LTE） system. Frequency offset estimation of OFDM is an essential issue. Especially in the high-speed environment, the frequency offset will become large. Based on the features of LTE uplink physical random access channel （PRACH）, this paper proposes a new frequency offset algorithm by using peak power ratio to enlarge the range of frequency offset estimation. According to the relation between frequency offset and the power delay profile （PDP）, the ratio of the peak power of the PDP at the main window to that at the negative window or positive window is utilized to estimate frequency offset. Simulation results show that the new proposed algorithm extends the estimation range of frequency offset from 1 000 Hz to 1 250 Hz. Meanwhile the accuracy of frequency offset estimation is almost not lost. Particularly in low signal noise ratio （SNR）, the new algorithm has lower mean square error （MSE） compared with traditional phase differential algorithm.
MI MO技术一直受到人们的广泛关注,并被广泛采用于各种移动通信系统的标准化协议中.在此系统中用到的分集合并和空时解码技术都需要以准确估计的信道状态信息为前提条件,以往的信道估计都是在MI MO系统子信道间是非相关的假设下进行的.事实上,由于天线之间距离的限制和传播路径散射体的不充分,子信道之间常常存在一定的相关性,常称为空间相关.另外,在信道估计、天线选择和自适应调制等方面需要已知(估计)这一参数.但是,要精确估计信道的相关性非常困难,到目前为止,这一问题没有得到很好的解决,以至于在大部分关于信道估计的文献中都是预先假定已知信道的相关特性.本文运用四阶累积量理论对MI MO信道及其相关矩阵进行了估计.仿真结果表明,本文所提出的方法具有较高的估计精度.
