Simplified pilot-aided weighted least square phase estimation method for OFDM-based WLANs

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a simplified weighted least square (SWLS) to estimate phase variations utilizing pilots, for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based very high throughput wireless local area networks (WLANs). For SWLS, the common phase error (CPE) maximum likelihood (ML) estimation and the angle boundary treatment are improved to enhance the performance of phase estimation, while the combined scheme of pair pilots is used to reduce the complexity. Simulation results show that, compared to weighted least square (WLS) scheme, a similar pocket error rate (PER) is achieved by using the SWLS method, but more than 40 percent of complexity is reduced.