Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission in time-varying channels suffers from intercarrier interference (ICI). Existing ICI countermeasures usually address a few dominant ICI terms only and treat the residual as similar to white noise. We show that the residual ICI has high normalized autocorrelation and that this normalized autocorrelation is insensitive to the maximum Doppler frequency and the multipath channel profile, among other things. The residual ICI can thus be whitened in a largely channel-independent manner, leading to significantly improved detection performance. Simulation results confirm the theoretical analysis. In particular, they show that the proposed technique can lower the ICI-induced error floor by several orders of magnitude in maximum-likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) designed to address a few dominant ICI terms.
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