Moment-based SNR estimation over linearly-modulated wireless SIMO channels

Authors:
Alex Stéphenne;Faouzi Bellili;Sofiène Affes
Affiliations:
INRS-EMT, Montreal, QC, Canada, and Ericsson Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada;INRS-EMT, Montreal, QC, Canada;INRS-EMT, Montreal, QC, Canada
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop a new method for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimation when multiple antenna elements receive linearly-modulated signals in complex additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) spatially uncorrelated between the antenna elements. We also derive extensions of other existing moment-based SNR estimators to the single-input multiple-output (SIMO) configuration. The new SIMO SNR estimation technique is non-data-aided (NDA) since it is a moment-based method and does not rely, therefore, on the a priori knowledge or detection of the transmitted symbols; it does not require the a priori knowledge of the modulation type or order. The new method is shown by Monte Carlo simulations to clearly outperform the best NDA moment-based SNR estimation methods in terms of normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) over QAM-modulated transmissions, namely the M2M4 method and the estimators referred to, in this paper, as the GT and the M6 methods, even when we extend them to the SIMO configuration.