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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2008, Vol. 9 Issue (4): 464-469    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A071444
Electrical & Electronic Engineering     
Time-domain training sequences design for MIMO OFDM channel estimation
Zhen LU, Jian-hua GE
Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universiry, Shanghai 200240, China; Department of Communications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
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Abstract  This paper describes a Least Squares (LS) channel estimation scheme for MIMO OFDM systems based on time-domain training sequence. We first compute the minimum mean square error (MSE) of the LS channel estimation, and then derive the optimal criteria of the training sequence with respect to the minimum MSE. It is shown that optimal time-domain training sequence should satisfy two criteria. First, the autocorrelation of the sequence transmitted from the same antenna is an impulse function in a region longer than the channel maximum delay. Second, the cross-correlation between sequences transmitted from different antennas is zero in this region. Simulation results show that the estimator using optimal time-domain training sequences has better performance than that using optimal frequency training sequence at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To reduce the training overhead, a suboptimal training sequence is also proposed. Comparing with optimal training sequence, it has low computation complexity and high transmission efficiency at the expense of little performance degradation.

Key wordsMIMO      OFDM      Channel estimation      Time-domain training sequence     
Received: 21 August 2007     
CLC:  TN914  
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Zhen LU, Jian-hua GE. Time-domain training sequences design for MIMO OFDM channel estimation. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2008, 9(4): 464-469.

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