Joint Doppler frequency shift compensation and data detection method using 2-D unitary ESPRIT algorithm for SIMO-OFDM railway communication systems

Abstract: In this paper, we present a joint Doppler frequency shift compensation and data detection method using 2-D unitary ESPRIT algorithm for SIMO-OFDM railway communication systems over fast time-varying sparse multipath channels. By creating the spatio-temporal array data matrix utilizing the ISI-free part of the CP (cyclic prefix), we first propose a novel algorithm for obtaining auto-paired joint DOA and Doppler frequency shift estimates of all paths via 2-D unitary ESPRIT algorithm. Thereafter, based on the obtained estimates, a joint Doppler frequency shift compensation and data detection method is developed. This method consists of three parts: (a) the received signal is spatially filtered to get the signal corresponding to each path, and the signal corresponding to each path is compensated for the Doppler frequency shift in time domain, (b) the Doppler frequency shift-compensated signals of all paths are summed together, and (c) the desired information is detected by performing FFT on the summed signal after excluding the CP. Moreover, we prove that the channel matrix becomes time-invariant after Doppler frequency shift compensation and the ICI is effectively avoided. Finally, simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method and compare it with the conventional method.