A novel approach of blind channel estimation through redundant linear precoding for orthogonal fre-quency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed. A redundant linear frequency-domain preceder is ap-plied to each pa...A novel approach of blind channel estimation through redundant linear precoding for orthogonal fre-quency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed. A redundant linear frequency-domain preceder is ap-plied to each pair of blocks before they enter the OFDM system. With the aid of the introduced structure, the frequency-selective channel can be identified at the receiver through auto-correlation operations, sin-gular value decomposition (SVD) and scalar ambiguity resolution. The proposed blind channel estimation method has low computation complexity and requires no prior statistical information of channel or noise. The redundant linear frequency-domain precoder is employed to identify the frequency-selective fading channels. And the proposed blind channel estimation method has high spectral efficiency because it re-quires no training sequence. Computer simulations have proved that this proposed blind channel estima- tion method can identify the frequency-selective channels perfectly and have a good performance.展开更多
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60572157), the High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No.2003AA123310) and Sharp Electronics(Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
文摘A novel approach of blind channel estimation through redundant linear precoding for orthogonal fre-quency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed. A redundant linear frequency-domain preceder is ap-plied to each pair of blocks before they enter the OFDM system. With the aid of the introduced structure, the frequency-selective channel can be identified at the receiver through auto-correlation operations, sin-gular value decomposition (SVD) and scalar ambiguity resolution. The proposed blind channel estimation method has low computation complexity and requires no prior statistical information of channel or noise. The redundant linear frequency-domain precoder is employed to identify the frequency-selective fading channels. And the proposed blind channel estimation method has high spectral efficiency because it re-quires no training sequence. Computer simulations have proved that this proposed blind channel estima- tion method can identify the frequency-selective channels perfectly and have a good performance.