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The present invention relates to the field of communication technology. A channel estimation device for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided for performing channel estimation on data based on synchronization signal and pilot, which comprises: a synchronization signal based initial channel estimation module for performing initial channel estimation based on a synchronization signal in the data; a pilot channel tracking module for performing pilot channel tracking on the result of the initial channel estimation; a noise reduction module for performing noise reduction on the result of the pilot channel tracking; and an effective sub-carrier extraction module for extracting channel estimation values of effective sub-carriers from the result of the noise reduction. With the channel estimation method and device for OFDM system according to the present invention, the channel estimation is carried out jointly based on the synchronization signal and the pilot, such that the accuracy of channel estimation can be significantly improved and the performance requirements of the system can be satisfied without increasing the density of pilots and thus reducing the amount of system payload. Moreover, the synchronization signal can still be used for its original purpose of carrier and timing synchronization.

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