Linear Interpolation in Pilot Symbol Assisted Channel Estimation for OFDM

  • Authors:
  • Xiaodai Dong;Wu-Sheng Lu;A. C.K. Soong

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate several efficient interpolation techniques for pilot symbol assisted channel estimation in OFDM. The interpolation methods studied include two dimensional (2-D) separable lowpass sine interpolator with Kaiser window, 2-D separable Deslauriers-Dubuc (DD) interpolation and 2-D discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based lowpass interpolation. The performances of these interpolators are compared with those of the well known minimum mean-square error (MMSE) 2-D separable Wiener filter and the perfect channel state information. It is shown that the Kaiser window based interpolator and DD interpolation are simple, robust, and outperform the 2-D DFT based lowpass interpolation as well as several existing interpolation methods proposed in the literature. These two schemes are suitable candidates for use in 1-D and 2-D channel estimation