Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 286-292.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.03.005

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Improved Blind Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Systems

LI Guo-min1,2, LIU Xin2, KANG Xiao-fei2, LIAO Gui-sheng1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;
    2. College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
  • Received:2014-07-25 Revised:2016-03-01 Online:2016-05-30 Published:2016-05-30

Abstract:

Channel estimation for MIMO-OFDM systems by linear precoding requires repeated calculation of ambiguity matrices. To solve the problem, a blind channel estimation algorithm is proposed. It unifies different channel ambiguity matrices by processing crosscorrelation matrices of received signal, and then estimates the channel using an iterative method. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has good mean square error performance and convergence, and less computational complexity compared with existing channel estimation methods based on linear precoding.

Key words: multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), precoding, blind channel estimation

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