Time‐frequency MSE analysis of linear channel estimation methods for the LTE downlink

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing OFDM is widely used in modern communication systems thanks to the ease of its implementation as well as to a simple design of channel estimation methods. Pilot-based schemes are commonly employed to recover channel information and implement efficient channel equalisation. From the symbols transmitted over the pilot carriers, the channel coefficients for a whole OFDM are estimated. In this paper, we propose a method to compute in a closed form the mean square estimation error of different linear approximation and interpolation algorithms in the time-frequency domain. Specifically, by exploiting the linear relationship between the estimated channel coefficients for the whole frame and those relative to the pilots, the proposed approach permits to obtain the mean square error relative to all OFDM symbols in a frame. The method can be used for any linear frequency/time interpolation/approximation method and for any choice of pilot positions and channel statistics. Thanks to our derivations, several pilot-aided channel estimation and interpolation algorithms can be compared without resorting to burdensome computer simulations. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, the downlink of the long term evolution system is taken as a case study: some popular channel estimators have been selected and the best strategy in a realistic wireless scenario is investigated. The performance of the method is also verified by computing, by means of simulations, bit error rate BER curves for the long term evolution LTE multiple input multiple output MIMO downlink, using 2×2 and 4×4 Alamouti space-frequency coding configurations, in both uncoded and coded communications. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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