INTERCARRIER INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN MULTICARRIER RECEIVERS

摘要

Described is a transmission system for transmitting a multicarrier signal from a transmitter (10) to a receiver (20). The multicarrier signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers. The receiver (20) comprises a channel estimator (28) for estimating amplitudes of the subcarriers and for estimating time derivatives of the amplitudes. The receiver (20) further comprises an equalizer (24) for canceling intercarrier interference included in the received multicarrier signal in dependence on the estimated amplitudes and derivatives (29). The channel estimator (28) comprises a reduced complexity filter for deriving vectors of the estimated amplitudes and derivatives (29) from vectors of received symbols (23) and vectors of estimated symbols (27). The reduced complexity filter may be arranged for exploiting an amplitude correlation between the amplitudes of different subcarriers and/or for exploiting a derivative correlation between the derivatives of different subcarriers.