Download or read book Channel Estimation in Single carrier and Multi carrier Communication Systems written by Seongwook Song and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multi Carrier Digital Communications written by Ahmad R.S. Bahai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-carrier modulation, in particular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), has been successfully applied to a wide variety of digital communications applications for several years. Although OFDM has been chosen as the physical layer standard for a diversity of important systems, the theory, algorithms, and implementation techniques remain subjects of current interest. This book is intended to be a concise summary of the present state of the art of the theory and practice of OFDM technology. This book offers a unified presentation of OFDM theory and high speed and wireless applications. In particular, ADSL, wireless LAN, and digital broadcasting technologies are explained. It is hoped that this book will prove valuable both to developers of such systems, and to researchers and graduate students involved in analysis of digital communications, and will remain a valuable summary of the technology, providing an understanding of new advances as well as the present core technology.

Download or read book Channel Estimation in Multicarrier Communication Systems written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The data rate and spectrum efficiency of wireless mobile communications have been significantly improved over the last decade or so. Recently, the advanced systems such as 3GPP LTE and terrestrial digital TV broadcasting have been sophisticatedly developed using OFDM and CDMA technology. In general, most mobile communication systems transmit bits of information in the radio space to the receiver. The radio channels in mobile radio systems are usually multipath fading channels, which cause inter-symbol interference (ISI) in the received signal. To remove ISI from the signal, there is a need of strong equalizer which requires knowledge on the channel impulse response (CIR). This is primarily provided by a separate channel estimator. Usually the channel estimation is based on the known sequence of bits, which is unique for a certain transmitter and which is repeated in every transmission burst. Thus, the channel estimator is able to estimate CIR for each burst separately by exploiting the known transmitted bits and the corresponding received samples. In this thesis we investigate and compare various efficient channel estimation schemes for OFDM systems which can also be extended to MC DS-CDMA systems. The channel estimation can be performed by either inserting pilot tones into all subcarriers of OFDM symbols with a specific period or inserting pilot tones into each OFDM symbol. Two major types of pilot arrangement such as block type and comb type pilot have been focused employing Least Square Error (LSE) and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) channel estimators. Block type pilot sub-carriers is especially suitable for slow-fading radio channels whereas comb type pilots provide better resistance to fast fading channels. Also comb type pilot arrangement is sensitive to frequency selectivity when comparing to block type arrangement. However, there is another supervised technique called Implicit Training (IT) based channel estimation which exploits the first order statistics i.

Download or read book Channel Estimation Techniques for Single and Multiple Transmit Antenna Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is an efficient multi-carrier modulation technique which can be combined with transmitter and receiver diversity communication systems. Maximal ratio combining (MRC) and space-time block coding (STBC) can be used in conjunction with receiver and transmitter diversity in order to increase the communication system's performance. For these systems, channel estimation and tracking must be performed since the receiver requires channel state information for decoding. In this thesis, block-type and comb-type channel estimation algorithms for OFDM systems over multipath fading channels are studied and simulated. Performance results using simulated frequency-selective channels are presented.

Download or read book Semi Blind Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation and Channel Equalization written by Yufei Jiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This SpringerBrief investigates the performance of semi-blind independent component analysis (ICA) based equalization and carrier frequency offset estimation approaches (CFO) for a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication systems. It provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges of channel equalization and frequency synchronization for different wireless systems. The authors present the wireless communication channel and system models. Key existing CFO estimation methods are reviewed, along with a number of the training based and non-training based (blind) channel estimation methods. This is followed by a study of ICA and its applications to OFDM-based wireless communication systems. Later chapters provide a detailed description of recent research on semi-blind CFO estimation and ICA based equalization approaches for various wireless communication systems including multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) OFDM and coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems. Semi-blind CFO estimation and equalization structures provide a spectrum-efficient and high-performance solution for high speed wireless communications. This book is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers or professionals in the area of wireless communications.

Download or read book Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for Multicarrier Communications written by Cheng Li and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for Multicarrier Communications" by Cheng, Li, 李鋮, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for Multicarrier Communications Submitted by Li Cheng For the degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in Feb., 2004 Multicarrier (MC) transmission is a promising technology in broadband wireless access involving high-throughput data transmission. MC communications are advantageous over single-carrier transmission in dealing with inter-symbol interference (ISI) due to the channel delay spread. However, MC communications also have certain drawbacks, including the vulnerability to carrier frequency offset (CFO) arising from the difference of oscillator frequencies between the transmitter and the receiver or from the Doppler shift. The performance of MC systems degrades severely even if the CFO is a small fraction of the subcarrier spacing. Therefore, correction of CFO is very important for MC communications. This thesis considers two variants of MC technologies, OFDM and MC-CDMA, and investigates CFO estimation for both systems. For OFDM systems, a semi-blind CFO estimation algorithm utilizing the embedded pilot tones, which are primarily used for channel estimation, is proposed for slowly-varying multipath channels. The algorithm is bandwidth efficient because it requires no training symbols. It is also demonstrated that the proposed algorithm can be regarded as the general form of the virtual-carrier-based CFO estimation algorithm previously proposed in the literature. For the purpose of practical implementation, a reduced-complexity estimator is also developed. It offers a tradeoff between estimation accuracy and implementation complexity. It is shown by simulation results that the proposed algorithm outperforms the cyclic-prefix-based algorithm in terms of the estimated CFO mean-square error performance. For MC- CDMA systems, a blind CFO estimator is proposed for the downlink transmission, where all users' signals are synchronously transmitted. The estimation scheme consists of two stages: feed-forward acquisition and error-feedback data-directed tracking. The acquisition stage is implemented utilizing the orthogonality among spreading codes and it is capable of bringing the CFO as large as the signal bandwidth to a small value. The residual CFO is refined by the tracking stage, which estimates the CFO and users' data simultaneously based on the maximum likelihood criterion. A reduced-complexity estimator based on the zero-padding FFT technique is also developed to reduce the implementation complexity. The performance of the proposed algorithm is investigated by extensive computer simulations. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2972533 Subjects: Signal processing - Digital techniques - Mathematics Multiplexing Wireless communication systems

Download or read book OQAM FBMC for Future Wireless Communications written by Tao Jiang and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OQAM/FBMC for Future Wireless Communications: Principles, Technologies and Applications introduces the concepts and key technologies of OQAM/FBMC, which has been regarded as the potential physical layer technique in future wireless communication systems. It comprises 10 chapters that provide an overview of wireless communications, introduce wireless channels, single carrier and multicarrier modulations, and three types of FBMC systems, also comparing OQAM/FBMC with OFDM. Other chapters introduce the OQAM/FBMC communication system model, the FFT implementation, CP insertion, PSD analysis, prototype filter optimization, joint PAPR reduction and sidelobe suppression, overhead reduction with virtual symbols, time and frequency domain channel estimations, block-wise SFBC for MIMO OQAM/FBMC, and much more. Provides a comprehensive guide to most major OQAM/FBMC techniques Includes a detailed comparison between OFDM and OQAM/FBMC Provides readers with a complete introduction to OQAM/FBMC, from the transmitter to the receiver Gives readers an up-to-date view of future mobile communications and how QAM/FBMC supports them

Download or read book Multi Carrier and Spread Spectrum Systems written by Khaled Fazel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological progress in multi-carrier (MC) modulation led orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to become an important part of beyond 3G cellular mobile communication standards, including LTE and WiMAX. In addition, the flexibility offered by the spread spectrum (SS) and time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques motivated many researchers to investigate several MC combined multiple access schemes, such as MC-CDMA, OFDMA and MC-TDMA. These schemes benefit from the advantages of each sub-system and offer high flexibility, high spectral efficiency, simple detection strategies and narrow-band interference rejection capability. Multi-Carrier and Spread Spectrum Systems is one of the first books to describe and analyze the basic concepts of multi-carrier OFDM transmission and its combination with spread spectrum (MC-CDMA). The different architectures and detection strategies as well as baseband-related transceiver components are explained. This includes topics like FEC channel coding and decoding, modulation and demodulation (IFFT/FFT), digital I/Q-generation, time and frequency synchronisation, channel estimation, frequency domain equalization and RF aspects such as phase noise and non-linearity issues. Concrete examples of its applications for cellular mobile communication systems (B3G/4G) are given. Further derivatives of MC-SS (such as OFDMA, SS-MC-MA and DFT-spread OFDM) and their corresponding applications in the LTE, WiMAX, WLAN and DVB-RCT standards are detailed. Capacity and flexibility enhancements of multi-carrier OFDM systems by different MIMO diversity techniques such as space time/frequency coding (STC, SFC) and software defined radio concepts are also described. Written in a highly accessible manner this book provides a unique reference on the topics of multi-carrier and spread spectrum communications, assisting 4G engineers with their implementation. Fully updated new edition of successful text, including two new chapters on LTE and WiMAX Describes in detail new applications of OFDM in mobile communication standards Examines all multi-carrier spread spectrum schemes, with in-depth analysis, from theory to practice Introduces the essentials of important wireless standards based on multi-carrier/spread spectrum techniques.

Download or read book Frequency Domain Receiver Design for Doubly Selective Channels written by Paulo Montezuma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequency-Domain Receiver Design for Doubly-Selective Channels discusses broadband wireless transmission techniques, which are serious candidates to be implemented in future broadband wireless and cellular systems, aiming at providing high and reliable data transmission and concomitantly high mobility. This book provides an overview of the channel impairments that may affect performance of single carrier and multi-carrier block transmission techniques in mobile environments. Moreover, it also provides a new insight into the new receiver designs able to cope with double selectivity that affects present and future broadband high speed mobile communication systems.

Download or read book Design of Channel Estimation and Equalization for OFDM Systems written by Ali Salah Mahdi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is one of the multicarrier techniques which is robust against Inter-symbol-Interference, multipath fading and very easy to apply in transmitters by using inverse fast Fourier transform IFFT and at the receivers by using fast Fourier transform FFT. In a communication system, channel estimation is very important issue for the data detection. In coherent detection, one of the popular techniques is to use pilot tones as a reference signal in OFDM symbols. In the comb-type pilot tones insertion, pilot tones are inserted into each OFDM symbols, but inserting a large number of pilot tones will lead to channel capacity reduction or bandwidth expansion [1-2]. In this work, to overcome this transmission loss, a modified least square (ModLS) algorithm for fast time varying wireless channel at comb-type pilot arrangement in QAM signals for OFDM system is proposed. The simulation results obtained from the proposed algorithm showed a good performance in noisy wireless channels. In addition, it has been compared with least square (LS) algorithm in different signal to noise ratios and different channel tabs.

Download or read book Pilot based Channel Estimation in OFDM System written by Fei Wang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier transmission technology in wireless environment, and can also be seen as a multi-carrier digital modulation or multi-carrier digital multiplexing technology. A large number of orthogonal sub-carriers are used to transmit information. OFDM system has high utilization of frequency spectrum and satisfactory capability of reducing multi-path inference. So, OFDM has been considered as one of the core technologies of 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system in the future. Channel estimation plays a very important role in OFDM system. As a research hotpot, many related algorithms have been presented these years, which can be generally separated into two methods, pilot-based channel estimation and blind channel estimation. Pilot-based channel estimation estimates the channel information by obtaining the impulse response from all sub-carriers by pilot. Compared with blind channel estimation, which uses statistical information of the received signals, pilot-based channel estimation is a practical and an effective method. This thesis is on the pilot-based channel estimation of OFDM system. Firstly, it introduces the basic principle and realization of OFDM system, and describes the system construction and model with summary of some key technologies, such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) and cyclic prefix (CP). We also analyze OFDM modulation in the frequency domain, and discusses some advantages and disadvantages of OFDM system. Next, a summary of multi-path and time varying statistical properties of general wireless channel of OFDM system are presented. This thesis also investigates principles and performances of the channel estimation methods, block type pilot and comb type pilot. In the arrangement of block type pilot, the performance of channel estimation is analyzed with estimators based on three different algorithms, least square (LS) algorithm, linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) algorithm and singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm. To use comb-type pilot arrangement, the thesis introduces three methods of interpolation: linear interpolation, second order interpolation and cubic spline interpolation. Finally, simulation results using Matlab are used to compare bit error rate (BER) performance of different modulation schemes and types of pilot.

Download or read book Multi Carrier Spread Spectrum Related Topics written by Khaled Fazel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khaled Fazel Stefan Kaiser Digital Microwave Systems German Aerospace Center (DLR) Bosch Telecom GmbH Institute for Communications Technology D-71522 Backnang, Germany D-82234 Wessling, Germany In this last decade of this millennium the technique of multi-carrier transmission for wireless broadband multimedia applications has been receiving wide interests. Its first great success was in 1990 as it was selected in the European Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard. Its further prominent successes were in 1995 and 1998 as it was selected as modulation scheme in the European Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T) and in three broadband wireless indoor standards, namely ETSI-Hiperlan-II, American IEEE-802. 11 and Japanese MMAC, respectively. The benefits and success of multi-carrier (MC) modulation in one side and the flexibility offered by spread spectrum (SS) technique in other hand motivated many researchers to investigate the combination of both techniques, known as multi-carrier spread-spectrum (MC-SS). This combination benefits from the main advantages of both systems and offers high flexibility, high spectral efficiency, simple detection strategies, narrow band interference rejection capability, etc. . The basic principle of this combination is straightforward: The spreading is performed as direct SS (DS-SS) but instead of transmitting the chips over a single sequence carrier, several sub-carriers could be employed. As depicted in Figure 1, after spreading with assigned user specific code of processing gain G the frequency mapping and multi-carrier modulation is applied. In the receiver side after multi-carrier demodulation and frequency de-mapping, the corresponding detection algorithm will be performed.

Download or read book Performance Analysis of Multi antenna OFDM Systems with Phase Noise and Imperfect Channel Estimation written by Mohamed Jalloh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of wireless technologies and the associated convenience that portable wireless products and services provide, continues to drive the need for more advanced products and broadband wireless services that demand carefully selected spectrally efficient modulation schemes to support the desired higher data rates. The development of multicarrier systems has paved the way to meeting the system requirements and fulfilling these needs. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multicarrier modulation technique that has provided effective means for achieving high data rates and spectral efficiency requirements in wireless communication systems, while making use of relatively simple receiver designs. In wireless communications, one of the major implementation challenges is system sensitivity to synchronization issues, which is even more pronounced in multicarrier systems such as OFDM. The use of OFDM with a high number of subcarriers, to achieve the high data rates it provides, makes it more susceptible to these non-idealities such as phase noise. Another critically limiting factor of system performance is the introduction of channel estimation errors as a consequence of imperfect channel estimation at the receiver. Accurate channel estimates are very essential in ensuring correct detection of the transmitted signal at the receiver. A thorough understanding of system operation therefore requires a detailed analysis of the effects of all the impairments. This dissertation addresses these system impairments by investigating the effects analytically on OFDM systems, deriving bit error rate (BER) expressions for systems that employ a single antenna at both the transmitter and receiver. The investigation is extended to also include OFDM systems that employ multi-antenna configurations at the receiver followed by a similar multi-antenna configuration at the transmitter. The impact of these negative effects is further investigated when applied to a practical system, comparing the analytical results with simulations that makes use of system parameters of the IEEE 802.16 standards.

Download or read book Channel Estimation and Equalization in MultiGigabit Systems written by Bernardo Martínez Blas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In actual mobile radio systems, multipath conditions pose a problem, as the channel becomes frequency dependent. This point is especially critical in case of high frequency transmissions with very high data rate and high error performance, such as defined in the IEEE 802.15.3c which is an emerging 60-GHz standard supporting data rates of multi-giga bits per second (multi-Gbps) for short-range indoor applications. The deployment of such high speed wireless transmission has been very difficult throughout history mainly by two critical factors: the first one was the lack of wide enough spectrum and the second one is the high cost of high frequency circuits and devices. However, this trend is changing to the point that not too long ago, the substantial unlicensed spectrum became available at the millimeter-wave band of 60-GHz. Also, the advancement in technology drives the cost of 60-GHz circuits and devices much lower than in the past making possible its use for high definition audio and video wireless transmissions. In order to overcome the transmission channel issues, it is necessary to include a channel equalizer in the receiver, which must estimate the channel impulse response and make some operations to transform the frequency dependent channel to a flat channel. Nevertheless, the equalizer technology will depend on three different factors: first one the physical layer (PHY) technique under consideration for multi-Gbps Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) which basically could be orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) or single-carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE); second, the channel impulse response estimation carried out in order to determine the channel transfer function H(f), existing several methods to obtain an estimation; and third, the used equalization method and structure in order to reverse all distortions produced by the channel. This Master thesis has been carry out during an Erasmus program in the Technische Universitat of Braunchweig, Germany, and it is the first part of a whole European project for the study, analysis and deployment of the IEEE 802.15.3c standard for wireless communications with very high data rate and high error performance in the 60-GHz band. According to the instructions and requirements defined by professor Thomas Kürner which was in charge of this project, this thesis include: first, a theoretical study of all the different propagation effects which could affect a wireless communication channel in order to run not only the simulations presented in this thesis but also the future simulations; second, the development of a model in Matlab/Simulink that will be useful to carry out all the project simulations (taken into account the specifications collected in IEEE 802.15.3c standard); third, the results of the carried simulations for Single Carrier Channel estimation and equalization by using two different equalization methods in the frequency domain: Zero Forcing and Minimum Mean Square Error equalization. Taking this into account, the thesis is organized as follows. Section I is dedicated to the study of all the different propagation effects and problems which affects a wireless communication transmissions; In Section II, technologies and Physical Layer Modes are described attending the IEEE 802.15.3c in order to learn its different characteristics for the subsequent channel estimation; Section III is devoted to channel estimation and equalization methods description; estimation and equalization methods are selected in order to carry out the simulations in Section IV; finally, in Section V the developed system simulator as well as the obtained simulation results are presented after implementation of Zero Forcing and Minimum Mean Square Error equalization methods in Matlab/Simulink.

Download or read book Frequency domain Equalization of Single Carrier Transmissions Over Doubly Selective Channels written by Hong Liu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Wireless communication systems targeting at broadband and mobile transmissions commonly face the challenge of fading channels that are both time and frequency selective. Therefore, design of effective equalization and estimation algorithms for such channels becomes a fundamental problem. Although multi-carrier transmissions demonstrate prominent potential to combat doubly selective fading, several factors may retard their applications, such as: high peak-to-average power ratio, sensitivity to phase noise, etc. Meanwhile, single-carrier transmission is a conventional approach and has important applications, such as HDTV broadcasting, underwater acoustic communication. In this dissertation, we focus on receiver design for single-carrier transmissions. Our goal is to design and develop a group of channel estimation and equalization algorithms in the frequency-domain, which enable high performance and low complexity reception of single-carrier transmissions through doubly selective channels. For single-carrier transmissions over moderately fast fading channels with long-delay spread, we present an improved iterative frequency-domain equalization (IFDE) algorithm based on soft-interference-cancellation (SIC) and propose a novel adaptive frequency-domain channel estimation (AFDCE) based on soft-input Kalman filter, where soft information feedback from the IFDE can be exploited in the channel estimator. Simulation results show that, compared to other existing schemes, the proposed scheme offers lower MSE in channel prediction, lower BER after decoding, and robustness to non-stationary channels. We extend the IFDE/AFDCE scheme to accommodate the application of digital television (DTV) signal reception. Compared with the traditional joint decision feedback equalization (DFE) /decoding plus frequency-domain least-mean-square (FDLMS) channel estimation approach, the proposed scheme achieves better performance at a fraction of the implementation cost. For very fast fading large-delay-spread channels, traditional FDE methods fail, because channel variation within a FFT block induces significant off-main-diagonal coefficients in the frequency domain. To conquer the problem, we apply Doppler channel shortening to shape the energy distribution of those coefficients and derive a pilot-aided MMSE estimator to estimate them for SIC. We also propose a novel IFDE by leveraging both the sparse structure of shortened channel and finite-alphabet property of transmitted symbols. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme has advantages over the well-known FIR-MMSE-DFE/RLS-CE scheme in both performance and complexity.

Download or read book Blind Channel Estimation and Single user Detection for Multi carrier and Spread spectrum Systems with Transmit Diversity written by Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The application of transmit diversity techniques such as Space-Time Block Coding (STBC) to the downlink of multiuser wireless communications systems has received considerable attention. The main advantage of such an approach is its ability to provide diversity gains through the use of multiple antennas only at the transmitting side without significantly increasing the complexity at the receiving end. Among the many multiple access techniques proposed, Multi-Carrier (MC) and Direct Sequence (DS) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) techniques are known as the most promising candidates for future broadband mobile communication networks. In MC and DS-CDMA systems or combination thereof, employing transmit diversity, the spatial diversity gains can only be realized if the underlying channels are accurately acquired at the receiver. Furthermore, such systems suffer from high computational complexity which should be properly addressed for practical implementations. Motivated by these observations, in the first part of this dissertation, we introduce the chip-level ST block coding scheme for DS-CDMA systems. For this scheme, we address the problems of single-user detection as well as blind channel estimation, and we show that chip-level coding does not suffer from antenna order ambiguity. Moreover, we demonstrate that chip-level schemes exhibit low decoding delay and allow for the design of adaptive single-user detectors with improved short data-record performance characteristics compared to their symbol-level counterparts. In the second part of this dissertation, we present a novel transmission scheme for the downlink of MC-CDMA systems with transmit diversity that is based on chip-level Space-Frequency (SF) block coding. For this scheme, we investigate the problem of blind channel estimation when the received signal processing is done (i) pre-Fast Fourier Transform (FFT); and (ii) post-FFT. We propose two blind channel estimation algorithms based on subspace and Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) principles. Moreover, we present an analytical performance analysis of the proposed algorithms by investigating the bias as well as the finite data record mean-square error of the channel estimates. Our analysis shows that SFBC MC-CDMA systems do not suffer from antenna order ambiguity. In addition, to benchmark the accuracy of our estimation algorithms, we derive the corresponding Cramer-Rao bounds (CRB) based on a novel approach that assumes the knowledge of only the spreading code of the desired user. Our approach has the advantage of providing lower bounds which are tighter than the CRBs with known signatures. We also study the problem of single user detection for downlink transmissions to address the issue of multiuser interference. In the case of the post-FFT approach, we take advantage of the SFBC-induced signal structure to derive linear single-user detectors with improved performance in short data-record situations. Finally, in order to address the issue of computational complexity, we exploit the structure of the covariance matrix of the received signal to simplify the computations involved in estimating the channel, and forming the detector."--

Download or read book Channel Estimation in Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of OFDM and MC-CDMA are not new but the new technologies to improve their functioning is an emerging area of research. In general, most mobile communication systems transmit bits of information in the radio space to the receiver. The radio channels in mobile radio systems are usually multipath fading channels, which cause inter-symbol interference (ISI) in the received signal. To remove ISI from the signal, there is a need of strong equalizer. In this thesis we have focused on simulating the OFDM and MC-CDMA systems in MATLAB and designed the channel estimation for them.