Carrier Synchronization for Very Low SNR

摘要

The Turbo decoding performance will suffer serious degradation under low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) conditions for the reason of residual frequency and phase offset in the carrier. In this paper, an improved residual carrier frequency offset estimation algorithm based on a priori probability aided (APPA) phase estimation is proposed. A carrier synchronization loop that combines the iterative turbo decoder and the phase estimator together is constructed, where the extrinsic information obtained from the Turbo decoder is used to aid an iterative phase estimation process. The simulation results show that the algorithm performs successfully under very low SNR conditions (for example, less than -7.4 dB) with large frequency offset and phase error and the performance of this algorithm is very close to the optimally synchronized system.