Optimal and mismatched detection of QAM signals in fast fading channels with imperfect channel estimation

Authors:
Y. V. Zakharov;V. M. Baronkin;J. Zhang
Affiliations:
Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom;N. N. Andreev Acoustics Institute, Moscow, Russia;Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we derive an optimal detector for pilot-assisted transmission in Rayleigh fading channels with imperfect channel estimation. The classical approach is based on obtaining channel estimates and treating them as perfect in a minimum distance detector (this is called mismatched detector). The optimal detector jointly processes the received pilot and data symbols to recover the data. The optimal detector is specified for fast frequency-flat fading channels. We consider spline approximation of the channel gain time variations and compare the detection performance of different mismatched detectors with the optimal one. Further, we investigate the detection performance of an iterative receiver in a system transmitting turbo-encoded data, where a channel estimator provides either maximum likelihood estimates, minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimates or statistics for the optimal detector. Simulation results show that the optimal detector outperforms the mismatched detectors. However, the improvement in the detection performance compared to the mismatched detector with the MMSE channel estimates is modest.