ETRI Journal
- Volume 28 Issue 5
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- Pages.688-691
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- 2006
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- 1225-6463(pISSN)
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- 2233-7326(eISSN)
Superimposed Pilot Aided Multiuser Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Uplinks
- Yang, Qinghai (Graduate School of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Inha University) ;
- Kwak, Kyung-Sup (Graduate School of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Inha University)
- Received : 2006.03.16
- Published : 2006.10.31
Abstract
This letter addresses the superimposed pilot aided multiuser channel estimation for the uplinks of multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems. To mitigate the embedded-data effects on the performance of channel estimation, a novel combining algorithm is proposed. Optimal pilot symbols are developed with respect to the least square channel estimate's mean square error. The averaged sum-capacity lower bound is derived and simulated. Simulation results show that on a low signal-to-noise ratio regime, our proposed scheme achieves better performance and higher capacity than the conventional pilot aided approach.