Reduced rank MIMO-OFDM channel estimation for high speed railway communication using 4D GDPS sequences

Date

2017-12

Authors

Talaei, Farnoosh
Dong, Xiaodai

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Publisher

ICT Express

Abstract

This paper presents a reduced rank channel estimator for multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMOOFDM) high speed railway (HSR) systems. Conventional interpolation based channel estimators require high pilot load for robust estimation of the rapidly time varying frequency-selective MIMO-OFDM HSR channel. To relax the high pilot overhead requirement, we take advantage of the channel’s restriction to low dimensional subspaces due to the time, frequency and spatial correlation and propose a low complexity linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) channel estimator. The channel estimator utilizes a four-dimensional (4D) basis expansion channel model obtained from band-limited generalized discrete prolate spheroidal (GDPS) sequences. Simulation results validate that the mean square estimation error of the proposed estimator is smaller than that of the conventional interpolation based least square (LS) estimator and the performance is robust to different delay, Doppler and angular spreads.

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Keywords

Time variant channel estimation, High speed trains, GDPS sequences, MIMO-OFDM

Citation

Talaei, F. & Dong, X. (2017). Reduced rank MIMO-OFDM channel estimation for high speed railway communication using 4D GDPS sequences. ICT Express, 3(4), 164-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2017.11.005