System-level evaluation of a downlink OFDM switched-beam system with Kalman-based joint channel estimation and beam selection

Raouia Nasri*, Abla Kammoun, Alex Stéphenne, Sofiène Affes

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Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of an OFDM switched-beam system based on Kalman filtering for joint channel estimation and beam selection. For this purpose, we develop a system-level simulator which computes the Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR) for a reference mobile user. For a given system capacity in terms of average number of users per cell, the resulting SIR distribution collected from a large number of system-level snapshots translates the link-level throughput vs. SNR results into a system-level cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the user throughput from which different meaningful system-level performance measures such as the average throughput can be computed. Simulations suggest that the proposed Kalman-based OFDM switched-beam system offers improved performance over slow fading channels in terms of link-level frame error rate (FER) and system-level capacity or average throughput per user or cell.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication24th Biennial Symposium on Communications, BSC 2008
Pages31-34
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event24th Biennial Symposium on Communications, BSC 2008 - Kingston, ON, Canada
Duration: Jun 24 2008Jun 26 2008

Publication series

Name24th Biennial Symposium on Communications, BSC 2008

Other

Other24th Biennial Symposium on Communications, BSC 2008
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityKingston, ON
Period06/24/0806/26/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Communication

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