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http://dx.doi.org/10.7471/ikeee.2011.15.3.235

Channel Estimation for Scattered Pilot Based OFDM Systems  

Kim, See-Hyun (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Suwon University)
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Journal of IKEEE / v.15, no.3, 2011 , pp. 235-240 More about this Journal
Abstract
The scattered pilots employed in DVB-T take advantage of the merits of both the block type and comb type pilot arrangement to increase the transmission efficiency. To estimate the channel transfer functions for data subcarriers, it is required to conduct time-frequency domain 2D estimation using the pilots. Though 2D Wiener estimator is optimal in sense of MSE (mean square error), it is too complex to implement in hardware. In this paper a new channel estimation method for the scattered pilot based OFDM system by measuring the power of AWGN and removing the noise in the LS (least square) estimate of the channel is proposed. And the simulation results reveal the proposed method outperforms the 2D linear interpolation in the fading channel.
Keywords
scattered pilots; channel estimation; DVB-T;
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