Blind frequency offset estimation for overlap PCC-OFDM systems in presence of phase noise

This paper presents a technique for frequency offset estimation for polynomial cancellation coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with symbols overlapped in the time domain (overlap PCC-OFDM) in the presence of phase noise. The frequency offset estimator is designed based on the subcarrier pair imbalance (SPI) caused by frequency offset. The estimation is performed in the frequency domain at the output of the receiver discrete Fourier transform (DFT). No training symbols or pilot tones are required. Simulations show that this estimator is an approximately linear function of frequency offset. Phase noise does not significantly affect the variance performance of the estimator.