On using transmission overhead efficiently for channel estimation in OFDM

  • Authors:
  • Christian Oberli;María Constanza Estela;Miguel Ríos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom;Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The limited time available for acquiring the channel state in mobile broadband wireless communication systems makes it crucial to count with channel estimation methods that attain the highest accuracy with a given preamble length. For the family of preambles that probe channels repeatedly at equispaced frequencies, we find that the shortest preamble that attains a given mean square error is a sequence that under-samples the channel spectrum, thereby allowing for a better mitigation of white Gaussian noise by averaging a higher number of observations.