An EM-based phase-noise estimator for MIMO systems

In this paper, we derive a phase-noise estimator for MIMO systems affected by independent phase noise at each antenna. The proposed phase-noise estimator employs the expectation-maximization algorithm and can incorporate channel decoding. The main feature of the proposed estimator lies in the fact that it estimates separately phase-noise samples at the transmitter and at the receiver, instead of estimating, as it is typical in single-antenna case, the sum of the samples at the two sides. Simulation results show that the proposed estimator allows obtaining a very good performance at an affordable complexity.

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