WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Hybrid EM and KF receiver of MIMO OFDM systems in time-varying environments
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
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Maximum likelihood sequence estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over unknown multipath fading channels is analytically infeasible for lack of efficient methods to maximize the likelihood function. A practical solution to this problem has been recently proposed in the context of space-time block-coded OFDM by resorting to the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. The resulting detector operates iteratively, exploiting knowledge of the channel statistics and the operating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this work, we address the problem of estimating the above quantities and propose a recursive solution based on ad hoc reasoning. Simulations indicate that the EM detector employing the estimated SNR and channel statistics has better performance than other schemes operating in a mismatched mode. Also, the performance loss with respect to a system with perfect channel knowledge is negligible at SNR values of practical interest.