【Title】Carrier frequency offset and impulse noise estimation for underwater acoustic orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (2014 No.3) 

【Author】SUN Haixin; XU Xiaoka; MA Li; KUAI Xiaoyan; CHENG En; CHEN En 

【Abstract】The carrier frequency offset（CFO）and impulse noise always affect the performance of underwater acoustic communicationsystems.The CFO and impulse noise could be estimated by using the null subcarriers to cancel the effects of the two types of interference.The null subcarriers estimation methods include optimal separate estimation and joint estimation.The separate estimation firstly estimates the CFO value and then estimates the impulse noise value.However,the CFO and impulse noise always affect each other when either of them is estimated separately.The performance could be improved by using the joint estimation.The results of simulations and experiments have showed that these two optimization methods have good performance and the joint estimation has better performance than the separate estimation method.There is 3 dB performance gain at the BER value of 10-2when using the joint estimation method.Thus these methods could improve the system robustness by using the CFO compensation and impulse noise suppression.