Joint channel estimation and data symbol detection in space-time communications

This paper considers joint channel estimation and data detection for multipath radio channels with multiple antennas at the transmitter and/or receiver. An iterative space-time receiver based on the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is described and performance is investigated on fast fading channels for several transmit diversity and space-time coding schemes.

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