An Adaptive Channel Estimation Technique in MIMO OFDM Systems

In this paper, an adaptive channel estimation for MIMO OFDM is proposed. A set of pilot tones first are placed in each OFDM block, then the channel frequency response of these pilot tones are adaptively estimated by reeursive least squares （RLS） directly in frequency domain not in time domain. Then after the estimation of the channel frequency response of pilot tones, to obtain the channel frequency response of data tones, a new interpolation method based on DFT different from traditional linear interpolation method according to adjacent pilot tones is proposed. Simulation results show good performance of the technique.

Linear MMSE Channel Estimation for Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks

Channel estimation techniques applied to cognitive radio networks (CRN) are analyzed for simultaneously primary and secondary channel estimations operating in underlay cognitive radio networks (uCRN). A complete base-band transmission including pilot sequence transmission, channel matrix estimation and optimal precoder matrix generation based on imperfect channel estimation are described. Also, the effect of imperfect channel estimation has been studied to provide means of developing techniques to overcome problems while enhancing the MIMO communication performance.

Non-orthogonal pilot pattern for sparse channel estimation in large-scale MIMO-OFDM system

From the perspective of compressed sensing（CS） theory, the channel estimation problem in large-scale multiple input multiple output（MIMO）-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（OFDM） system is investigated. According to the theory, the smaller mutual coherence the reconstruction matrix has, the higher success probability the estimation can obtain. Aiming to design a pilot that can make the system reconstruction matrix having the smallest mutual coherence, this paper proposes a low complexity joint algorithm and obtains a kind of non-orthogonal pilot pattern. Simulation results show that compared with the conventional orthogonal pilot pattern, applying the proposed pattern in the CS channel estimation can obtain the better normalized mean square error performance. Moreover, the bit error rate performance of the large-scale MIMO-OFDM system is also improved.

Pilot Contamination Reduction by Shifted Frame Structure in Massive MIMO TDD Wireless System

Pilot contamination limits the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output（MIMO） system severely due to the degraded channel estimation. An efficient way to solve this problem in time division duplex（TDD） wireless system is shifting the location of pilots in time frames used in neighboring cells. However, the shifted frame structure has only been studied in MIMO system with the ideal independent and identically distributed（i.i.d.） channel coefficients. In this paper, the shifted frame structure is studied in a measured channel with a large number of antennas for a certain class of channel fading statistics. To deal with the high inter-cell interference caused by the shifted frame structure in such a measured channel condition, we propose a scenario with a covariance-aided channel estimator. This scenario shows that pilot contamination can be solved and the high inter-cell interference can be made to vanish asymptotically with the number of antennas. The key of the interference rejection is obtaining the precise condition on the second order statistics for the desired and interference signals. The most significant information of the second order statistics comes from two parts, one is the channel state information（CSI） among the base stations（BSs）, the other comes from the estimated information exchanged by the BSs, which depicts the channel between the BSs and the users. The simulations give powerful results of the interference rejection and the achievable rate promotion.