Patent ID: 7324599

Claim:
A method for frequency correction in a multicarrier system, comprising: receiving a signal comprising a stream of data signals, wherein at least one of the data signals comprises at least two data signal samples, calculating an estimated phase offset for each data signal as a function thereof, calculating a predicted phase offset for each data signal as a function of the estimated phase offset thereof and the estimated phase offset of a preceding one of the data signals such that the ratio of the calculated predicted phase offset of each data signal and the estimated phase offset of a first data signal of said stream substantially equals the ratio of a distance (X k+1 ) between a beginning of a following one of the data signals and a main phase reference point and a distance (Y l ) between a phase reference point of the first data signal and the main reference point, said distances (X k+1 , Y l ) being indicative of a number of data signal samples in the time-domain, and correcting the received signal using the predicted phase offset.