Pilot-symbol-assisted channel estimation for space-time coded OFDM systems

  • Authors:
  • King F. Lee;Douglas B. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • Multimedia Architecture Lab, Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Space-time coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter diversity techniques have been shown to provide an efficient means of achieving near optimal diversity gain in frequency-selective fading channels. For these systems, knowledge of the channel parameters is required at the receivers for diversity combining and decoding. In this paper, we propose a low complexity, bandwidth efficient, pilot-symbol-assisted (PSA) channel estimator for multiple transmitter OFDM systems. The pilot symbols are constructed to be nonoverlapping in frequency to allow simultaneous sounding of the multiple channels. The time-varying channel responses are tracked by interpolating a set of estimates obtained through periodically transmitted pilot symbols. Simulations are used to verify the effectiveness of the propsed estimator and to examine its limitations. It is also shown decision-directed minimum mean square error MMSE channel estimator for OFDM transmitter diversity systems.