Estimation of multipath parameters in wireless communications

  • Authors:
  • M.C. Vanderveen;A.-J. Van der Veen;A. Paulraj

  • Affiliations:
  • Sci. Comput. Program, Stanford Univ., CA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In a parametric multipath propagation model, a source is received by an antenna array via a number of rays, each described by an arrival angle, a delay, and a fading parameter. Unlike the fading, the angles and delays are stationary over long time intervals. This fact is exploited in a new subspace-based high-resolution method for simultaneous estimation of the angle/delay parameters from multiple estimates of the channel impulse response. A computationally expensive optimization search can be avoided by using an ESPRIT-like algorithm. Finally, we investigate certain resolution issues that take the fact that the source is bandlimited into account