The aim of this article is to design a simple receiver, which can jointly estimate the frequency selective channel impulse response, frequency independent transmit/receive IQ imbalance, and carrier frequency offset with minimal training and implementation complexity. The estimation of carrier frequency offset is performed using 2 scalable solutions. To estimate the frequency selective channel impulse response and frequency independent transmit/receive IQ imbalance, we proposed 2 different estimation techniques. The first technique is an iterative approach stemming from a doubly linear model of the transmission system in the presence of transmit/receive IQ imbalance and frequency selective channel impulse response, while the second approach is a least squares solution. Both these schemes provide a good performance/complexity trade-off. Although the iterative estimates of channel impulse response are not optimal, they do provide a near ideal bit error performance. The proposed scheme blends seamlessly with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.11 standard but can be adapted to work with any orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing standard.
KEYWORDSCFO and IQ imbalance estimation, direct conversion devices, multicarrier systems 1 Int J Commun Syst. 2017;30:e3277. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dac How to cite this article: Ali MA, Sandhu MY, Waqar O, Rahimo AQ. Receiver design for multicarrier transmission systems in presence of Tx/Rx imperfections. Int J Commun Syst. 2017;30:e3277.