Method and device for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system

• US 20060093051A1
• Filed: 11/03/2004
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation Taiwan)
• Original Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation Taiwan)
• Inventors: Hou, Wen-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US10/979,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20060093051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/061 providing hard decisions only; arrangements for tracking or suppressing unwanted low frequency components, e.g. removal of dc offset removal of dc offset in coupling arrangements H04L25/029, H04L25/0296
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01

Abstract

A method and device for resisting DC interference of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are used to obtain interference of a DC source to an OFDM system corresponding to various modulation types and frequency offsets for producing a weighting look-up table when the OFDM makes simulation. Different weights are then given to interfered sub-carriers based on this weighting look-up table when decoding. Reliable signals can thus be used to compensate interfered unreliable signals to accomplish the object of resisting DC interference for the OFDM system.

Claims

1. A method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system comprising at

least the steps of:

receiving an OFDM signal by using an RF module;

demodulating said OFDM signal by using a demodulation circuit;

introducing in a weighting look-up table;

giving different weight to interfered sub-carriers according to a modulation type and a frequency offset by looking up said weighting look-up table; and

decoding out signals with weighting effect.

2. The method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said frequency offset is produced by the difference between oscillation frequencies at a sending end and a receiving end of said OFDM system.

3. The method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said demodulation circuit is realized by a discrete Fourier transform circuit.

4. The method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said modulation type is known through a header message of said OFDM signal.

5. The method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said weighting look-up table is made beforehand by the steps of:

generating a plurality of multi-carrier test symbols by using said RF module in said OFDM system;

receiving said test symbols from a sending end of said OFDM system by using said RF module at a receiving end of said OFDM system;

estimating a frequency offset; and

producing said weighting look-up table based on modulation type of said signal and said frequency offset.

6. The method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 5, wherein a DC interference estimation unit electrically connected with said RF module is used to estimate DC interference of said RF module to said OFDM system after said step of receiving said test symbols from a sending end of said OFDM system.

7. The method for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said step of estimating a frequency offset is accomplished by using a frequency offset estimation unit electrically connected with said demodulation circuit.

8. A device for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system at least comprising:

an RF module for receiving an OFDM signal via a communication channel;

a DC interference estimation unit electrically connected with said RF module for receiving a DC source generated by said RF module;

a demodulation circuit electrically connected with said RF module;

a frequency offset estimation unit electrically connected with said demodulation circuit for getting an estimated frequency offset for said DC source and then obtaining a weighting look-up table based on the correspondence between said frequency offset and a modulation type; and

a decoder electrically connected with said demodulation circuit for giving different weights to interfered sub-carriers according to said weighting look-up table and then decoding for output.

9. The device for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 8, wherein said DC interference estimation unit can be accomplished by connecting a low-pass filter with an average operation unit.

10. The device for resisting DC interference of an OFDM system as claimed in claim 8, wherein said demodulation circuit is realized by a discrete Fourier transform circuit.