A method for supporting wireless communication over a physical channel in a mobile broadband system includes providing an estimate of the channel and obtaining a channel autocorrelation function of a channel impulse response of the channel. The method also includes expressing the channel autocorrelation function as a zero order Bessel function and applying Taylor expansion to the zero order Bessel function. Additionally, the method includes performing derivation of the channel autocorrelation function to obtain an estimate of the maximum Doppler frequency and using the obtained estimate of the maximum Doppler frequency to compensate for a current Doppler effect in a receiver receiving the signals.