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Pilot Assisted Channel Frequency Response Estimation for an OFDM System with a Comb-Type Pilot Pattern

빗 형태 패턴을 가지는 OFDM 시스템을 위한 파일럿 심볼 기반 채널 주파수 응답의 추정

  • Received : 2014.04.08
  • Accepted : 2014.05.27
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

The pilot assisted channel frequency response (CFR) estimation schemes for an OFDM-based system with virtual subcarriers are analyzed under the assumption that pilot symbols are located according to a comb-type pattern in the OFDM block. In particular, as the minimum mean square error (MMSE) based scheme aiming to directly predict the channel impulse response and the MMSE based scheme aiming to suppress the leakage have not been clearly compared, by proving that the mean square errors (MSEs) of the latter scheme is always larger than that of the former scheme, this paper shows that the former scheme is superior to the latter scheme. Moreover, the impact of the number of pilots on the performances of the MMSE and least-square based channel estimation schemes are investigated. The performance analyses of the presented schemes are confirmed by computer simulation.

본 논문은 OFDM 블록에 파일럿 심볼들이 빗 형태의 패턴에 따라 배치된 경우, 가상 부반송파를 가지는 OFDM 시스템의 channel frequency response (CFR)를 추정하는 여러 방식들을 서로 비교한다. 채널 임펄스 응답을 먼저 예측하는 것이 목적인 minimum mean square error (MMSE) 기반의 채널추정 방식과 누설현상의 억제가 목적인 MMSE 기반의 채널추정 방식이 지금까지 비교되지 않았기 때문에, 본 논문에서는 후자 방식과 전자 방식의 mean square error (MSE) 값들의 차이가 양수가 됨을 유도함으로써 전자 방식의 우수성을 논리적으로 증명한다. 아울러 본 논문에서는 파일럿 수의 변화가 MMSE 기반 채널추정 방식과 least-square (LS) 기반 채널 추정 방식의 성능에 미치는 영향을 조사한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 채널추정 방식들의 성능을 정량적으로 확인한다.

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