Asymptotically MMSE-optimum pilot design for comb-type OFDM channel estimation in high-mobility scenarios

K. M.Zahidul Islam*, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Naofal Al-Dhahir

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Abstract

Under high mobility, the orthogonality between sub-carriers in an OFDM symbol is destroyed resulting in severe inter-carrier interference (ICI). We present a novel algorithm to estimate the channel and ICI coefficients by exploiting the channel's time and frequency correlations and the (approximately) banded structure of the frequency-domain channel matrix. In addition, we invoke the asymptotic equivalence of Toeplitz and circulant matrices to reduce the dimensionality of the channel estimation problem by retaining the dominant terms only in an offline eigen-decomposition. Furthermore, we show that the asymptotically MMSE-optimum pilot design consists of identical equally-spaced frequency-domain clusters whose size is determined by the channel Doppler spread. Comparisons of our proposed algorithm with a widely-cited recent algorithm demonstrate a significant performance advantage at a comparable real-time complexity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages3776-3779
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: May 22 2011May 27 2011

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period05/22/1105/27/11

Keywords

  • Channel estimation
  • Doppler frequency
  • ICI
  • Model reduction
  • OFDM

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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