Cost reference particle filter in data aided channel estimation and phase noise tracking for OFDM systems

In this paper, we present a robust technique based on cost reference particle filter (CRPF) for combined channel impulse response (CIR) estimation and phase noise (PN) tracking in OFDM systems without any priori information regarding the noise in the state and measurement equation. Contrary to previous works, we hold no assumption regarding the magnitude of the PN variance and hence no approximation is made to simplify the model. The algorithm employs CRPF along with a Rao-Blackwellization technique for CIR estimation assuming static channel state over a number of OFDM symbols. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm based on mean squared error (MSE).

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