The invention discloses a
noise estimation method and device for an
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication
system, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, calculating respective initial
noise estimation matrixes on subcarriers based on a received training sequence; s2, on the basis of the initial
noise estimation matrix, a measurement parameter vector used for representing noise characteristics of each
subcarrier is obtained through calculation, and the dimension of the measurement parameter vector is equal to the number of the subcarriers; s3, dynamically and adaptively dividing all the subcarriers into one or more continuous frequency segments according to the measurement parameter vector, and determining the dividing boundary by the change characteristic of the measurement parameter vector in the
frequency domain; and S4, for each frequency segment obtained by division, based on the initial
noise estimation matrix corresponding to the subcarriers contained in the segment, calculating a noise
covariance matrix of the segment, so that
colored noise can be more effectively converted into
white noise, the detection error of the
signal is remarkably reduced, and the receiving performance and
demodulation reliability of the whole communication
system are improved.