Multi-user interference cancellation schemes for carrier frequency offset compensation in uplink OFDMA

Each user in the uplink of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system may experience a different carrier frequency offset (CFO). These uncorrected CFOs destroy the orthogonality among subcarriers, causing inter-carrier interference and multi-user interference, which degrade the system performance severely. In this paper, novel time-domain multi-user interference cancellation schemes for OFDMA uplink are proposed. They employ an architecture with multiple and numerical evaluations show that the proposed schemes achieve a significant performance gain compared to the conventional receiver and a reference frequency-domain multi-user interference cancellation scheme. In a particular scenario, a maximum CFO of up to 40% of the subcarrier spacing can be tolerated, and the CFO-free performance is maintained in the OFDMA uplink. The proposed schemes outperform the multi-user interference cancellation techniques for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) available in literature with comparable or lower complexity.