Fast and Accurate Frequency Estimation Using Sliding DFT

Frequency Estimation of a complex exponential is a problem relevant to a large number of fields. In this paper a computationally efficient and accurate frequency estimator is presented using the guaranteed stable Sliding DFT which gives stability as well as computational efficiency. The estimator approaches Jacobsens estimator and Candans estimator for large N with an extra correction term multiplied to it for the stabilization of the sliding DFT. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed estimator were found to be better than Jacobsens estimator and Candans estimator. Index terms : Frequency Estimation, Sliding DFT, Radar Signal Processing