The invention discloses an OFDM (
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) communication method, device and
system, and the method comprises the steps: generating a transmission frame which comprises a plurality of OFDM symbols; a first OFDM symbol of the transmission frame is a synchronous
pilot symbol, and a second OFDM symbol is a reference
pilot symbol; based on the transmission frame, configuring at least two
demodulation modes according to channel conditions or communication requirements; when the first
demodulation mode is configured, the receiving end performs
differential phase shift
keying differential
demodulation on subsequent data symbols based on the reference
pilot symbols; and when a second demodulation mode is configured, the receiving end performs channel
estimation by using the reference pilot symbol, and performs
quadrature amplitude modulation equalization and demodulation on subsequent data symbols according to a channel
estimation result. According to the invention, ultralow pilot frequency overhead can be realized, the pilot frequency overhead is compressed to only two symbols, a synchronization sequence and a reference pilot frequency sequence in each frame, and the
frequency spectrum utilization rate is greatly improved.