Aiming at the high computation load and the uncertainty of step chosen in traditional OFDM Signal-to-Noise Ratio(SNR)estimation method
a novel method is proposed to estimate the SNR of OFDM.We firstly use the correlation function to discriminate the two types of guard interval.Then we propose two different methods to estimate the SNR of OFDM signal according to the structure characteristic of two types guard interval.Finally
the result of judgment is combined with the corresponding SNR estimation method to realize the SNR estimation of OFDM.The experimental results show that the proposed method don’t need auxiliary data and the computation load is low with satisfied SNR estimation performance.