A channel estimator used in sparse multipath fading channel for orthogonal frequency division multi-plexing(OFDM)system is proposed.The dimension of signal subspace can be reduced to improve theperformance of channel ...A channel estimator used in sparse multipath fading channel for orthogonal frequency division multi-plexing(OFDM)system is proposed.The dimension of signal subspace can be reduced to improve theperformance of channel estimation.The simplified version of original subspace fitting algorithm is em-ployed to derive the sparse multipaths.In order to overcome the difficulty of termination condition,weconsider it as a model identification problem and the set of nonzero paths is found under the generalizedAkaike information criterion(GAIC).The computational complexity can be kept very low under propertraining design.Our proposed method is superior to other related schemes due to combining the procedureof selecting the most probable taps with GAIC model selection.Simulation in hilly terrain(HT)channelshows that the proposed method has an outstanding performance.展开更多
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文摘A channel estimator used in sparse multipath fading channel for orthogonal frequency division multi-plexing(OFDM)system is proposed.The dimension of signal subspace can be reduced to improve theperformance of channel estimation.The simplified version of original subspace fitting algorithm is em-ployed to derive the sparse multipaths.In order to overcome the difficulty of termination condition,weconsider it as a model identification problem and the set of nonzero paths is found under the generalizedAkaike information criterion(GAIC).The computational complexity can be kept very low under propertraining design.Our proposed method is superior to other related schemes due to combining the procedureof selecting the most probable taps with GAIC model selection.Simulation in hilly terrain(HT)channelshows that the proposed method has an outstanding performance.