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B. Ai et al.: Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDM in Wireless Communications Contributed Paper Manuscript received October 30, 2003 0098 3063/04/$20.00 ? 2004 IEEE 73 Fig.1. Effects of frequency offset F? Abstract—Timing jitter, frequency offset, carrier phase jitter and sampling clock frequency offset are the main synchronization errors encountered by OFDM systems. As many literatures have proved, OFDM systems are very sensitive to frequency errors. In this paper, three new methods to estimate the integer part of frequency offset are proposed, simulation results show its robustness to mitigate the multi-path effect and its enlarged estimation range for frequency offset. The correspondent Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuit through test in HDTV prototype in Team of Engineering Expert Group (TEEG) proves its feasibility and availability. The proposed method is also suitable for burst mode transmission systems such as Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Fixed-Broadband Wireless Access (F-BWA). Index Terms— COFDM, HDTV, Frequency offset estimation, WLAN I. INTRODUCTION Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) is a promising technique for future mobile wireless data systems in order to achieve high-bit data rate[1]. It has many advantages over conventional single carrier systems, such as robustness against multi-path delay spread, the improvement of channel throughput, adaptive modulation of subcarriers according to the channel conditions, extremely high spectral efficiency etc. Many digital transmission systems have adopted OFDM as their key modulation technique such as digital audio broadcasting (DAB), digital video broadcasting terrestrial TV (DVB-T)[2], WLAN systems based on IEEE 802.11(a) or Hiperlan2 [3] and asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL). Some related technology such as vector OFDM (V-OFDM), wide-band OFDM (W-OFDM), flash OFDM (F-OFDM) have presented their g