Optimum pilot pattern for channel estimation in OFDM systems

  • Authors:
  • Ji-Woong Choi;Yong-Hwan Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Sch. of Electr. Eng. & INMC, Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The performance of channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems significantly depends on the pilot signal, which is usually scattered in time and frequency domains. For a given pilot density, the authors optimally design the pilot pattern so as to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) of the channel estimate with the use of a general interpolator. The analytic results are verified by computer simulation.