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Frequency Synchronization Algorithms for OFDM Systems suitable for Communication over Frequency Selective Fading Channels Ferdinand Classen, Heinrich Meyr Aachen University of Technology; ISS; Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany email: classen Q ert.rwth-aachen.de Abstract In this paper, the problem of carrier synchronization of OFDM systems in the presence of a substantial frequency offset is considered. New frequency estimation algorithms for the data aided (DA) mode are presented. The resulting two stage structure is able to cope with frequency offsets in the order of mukbles of the spacing between subchannels. Key features of the novel scheme - W ~ i c h are presented in terms of estimation error variances, the required amount of training symbols and the computational load - ensure high speed synchronization with negligible decoder performance degradation at a low implementation effort. 1 Introduction Recently an OFDM system with M-PSK modulation has where adjacent subchannels carry the elements of a differen- tially encoded pseudo noise PN sequence and he based his algorithm on a correlation rule applied to this PN sequence. A similar idea is used in our contribution. But in contrast to [5] our algorithm allows the condition on the frame format to be relaxed and we do not have to require - as Muller did - that the channel is quasi constant within a fbted bandwidth. Besides that the synchronization task is performed into two steps, an acquisition step and a tracking step. The paper is organized as follows. We begin by proposing the OFDM receiver and analyzing the effect of a frequency error. Sec- tions 3 - 4 describe the synchronizer structures and the paper ends. with the presentation and discussion of the simulation results for the AWGN and various frequency selective fading channels. ing channel, i.e. a sophisticated equalization unit mandatory for a single carrier transmission scheme becomes obsolete. However, on the