Blind channel estimation based on maximizing the eigenvalue spread of cumulant matrices in (2 × 1) Alamouti's coding schemes

  • Authors:
  • Adriana Dapena;Héctor J. Pérez-Iglesias;Vicente Zarzoso

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Electrónica e Sistemas, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain;Laboratoire I3S, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France;Laboratoire I3S, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The popular Alamouti orthogonal space time code attains full transmit diversity in multiple antenna systems. This paper addresses the problem of blind channel identification in (2 × 1) Alamouti coded systems. Under the assumption of independent symbol substreams, the channel can be estimated from the eigendecomposition of matrices composed of second- or higher-order statistics (cumulants) of the received signal. The so-called joint approximate diagonalization of eigenmatrices (JADE) method for blind source separation via independent component analysis is optimal in that it tries to simultaneously diagonalize a full set of fourth-order cumulant matrices. To reduce computational complexity, we perform the eigenvalue decomposition of a single cumulant matrix, which is judiciously chosen by maximizing its expected eigenvalue spread. Simulation results show that the resulting technique outperforms existing blind Alamouti channel estimation methods and achieves a performance close to JADE's at a fraction of the computational cost. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.