Adaptive frequency-domain channel estimator in 4×4 MIMO-OFDM modems

Authors:
Ming-Fu Sun;Ta-Yang Juan;Kan-Si Lin;Terng-Yin Hsu
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This work presents an adaptive frequency-domain channel estimator (FD-CE) for equalization of space-time block code multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in time-varying frequency-selective fading. The proposed adaptive FD-CE ensures the channel estimation accuracy in each set of four MIMO-OFDM symbols. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed method achieved a 10% packet error rate of 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) at 29.5 dB SNR under 120 km/h (Doppler shift is 266 Hz) in 4 × 4 MIMO-OFDM systems. To decrease complexity, the rich feature of Alamouti-like matrix is exploited to derive an efficient very large-scale integration (VLSI) solution. Finally, this adaptive FD-CE using an in-house 0.13-µm CMOS library occupies an area of 3 × 3.1 mm2, and the 4 × 4 MIMO-OFDM modem consumes about 62.8 mW at 1.2 V supply voltage.