Blind CFO estimation for multiuser OFDM uplink with large number of receive antennas

In this paper, we propose a new blind carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation method for multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) uplink transmissions. The spatial multiplexing is supported in the considered model that allows the subcarriers to be simultaneously occupied by multiple users. We propose to assign different null subcarriers to different users and design algorithm that can perform blind CFO estimation for each individual user with the aid of large number of receive antennas, which then removes the necessity of multidimensional searching. Numerical results are provided to corroborate the proposed studies.