Preamble-Based Channel Estimation for OQAM/FBMC Systems With Delay Diversity

Delay diversity (DD) is a low-complexity and flexible transmit diversity technology for coded offset quadrature amplitude modulation based filter bank multicarrier (OQAM/FBMC) transmission systems. However, the introduction of delay parameters in DD-OQAM/FBMC systems leads to increased channel frequency selectivity, which makes the channel estimation problem more complicated. In this paper, we analyze and develop preamble-based channel estimation methods in DD-OQAM/FBMC systems from the perspective of frequency-domain, transform-domain, and time-domain aspects. Besides, channel estimators that can obtain the minimum channel estimation mean square error under least squares (LS) and linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) criteria are derived according to different levels of channel knowledge. Specifically, the proposed frequency-domain method estimates each channel frequency response individually based on a simplified frequency-domain channel model. The transform-domain method first estimates the equivalent single-input-single-output channel observed at the receiver assuming subchannel flatness, and then uses a window function in the time domain to separate the channels of different transmit antennas. The time-domain method is constructed based on an accurate time-domain channel model to directly estimate the channel impulse response without making any assumption about the subchannel flatness. A series of simulation experiments is conducted to verify the effectivity of these channel estimation methods for DD-OQAM/FBMC systems.

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