Block transmissions over doubly selective channels: iterative channel estimation and turbo equalization

  • Authors:
  • Kun Fang;Luca Rugini;Geert Leus

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy;Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special issue on advanced equalization techniques for wireless communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Modern wireless communication systems require high transmission rates, giving rise to frequency selectivity due to multipath propagation. In addition, high-mobility terminals and scatterers induce Doppler shifts that introduce time selectivity. Therefore, advanced techniques are needed to accurately model the time- and frequency-selective (i.e., doubly selective) channels and to counteract the related performance degradation. In this paper, we develop new receivers for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems and single-carrier (SC) systems in doubly selective channels by embedding the channel estimation task within low-complexity block turbo equalizers. Linear minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) pilot-assisted channel estimators are presented, and the soft data estimates from the turbo equalizers are used to improve the quality of the channel estimates.