A study on channel estimation methods for time-domain spreading MC-CDMA systems

In time-domain spreading MC-CDMA systems, which are candidates for the 4G system, data and pilot symbols are spread in the time domain and code-multiplexed. To combat fading issues, we need to conduct channel estimation by using the code-multiplexed pilot symbols. In this paper, we propose a channel estimation method for highly accurate channel estimation; it is a combination of a two-dimensional channel estimation method and an impulse response-based channel estimation method. We evaluate the proposed method by computer simulations.

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