Simultaneous time-frequency channel estimation based on compressive sensing for OFDM system

Conventional time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) systems have the difficulty to support 256QAM or higher-order modulations and suffer from performance loss, especially under the severe fading channels with long delays. In this letter, a simultaneous time-frequency channel estimation method based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed to solve this problem. First, the auxiliary channel information is obtained by exploiting the signal structure of TDS-OFDM. Then, a very few frequency-domain pilots in the OFDM block are used to acquire the accurate channel impulse response under the framework of CS. Besides, the auxiliary channel information is utilized to further reduce the complexity of the classical CS algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can well support 256QAM under fading channels with long delays and have better performance than the conventional schemes.

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