Pilot tone selection for channel estimation in a mobile OFDM system

  • Authors:
  • R. Negi;J. Cioffi

  • Affiliations:
  • Inf. Syst. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Channel estimation for mobile OFDM systems requires transmission of pilot tones. This paper addresses the important issue of selecting these pilot tones, so as to achieve a good quality estimate. It is shown that the best set of tones to be used are those which are equally spaced. Furthermore, it is shown using the case of a first order Markov channel, that it is more efficient to use a few pilot tones in all symbols, rather than use all tones as pilot tones in some symbols