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AnAdaptiveChannelEstimationTechniqueinMIMOOFDMSystems
AnAdaptiveChannelEstimationTechniqueinMIMOOFDMSystems
JOURNALOFELECTRONICSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGYOFCHINA,VOL.6,NO.3,SEPTEMBERQ08313AnAdaptiveChannelEstimationTechniqueinMIMOOFDMSystemsPei-ShengPanandBao-YuZhengAbstrac手_—Inthispape~anadapt~echannelestimationforMⅡooFDMisproposed.AsetofpilottonesfirstareplacedineachOFDMblockthenthechannelfrequencyresponseofthesepilottonesareadaptivelyestimatedbyrecursiveleastsquares(RLS)directlyinfrequencydomainnotintimedomain.Thenaftertheestimationofthechannelfrequencyresponseofpilottones,toobtainthechannelfrequencyresponseofdatatones,anewinterpolationmethodbasedonDFTdifferentfromtraditionallinearinterpolationmethodaccordingtoadjaeentpilottonesisproposed.Simulationresultsshowgoodperformanceofthetechnique./ndexTerms--Adaptive,channelestimation,frequencydomain,M1MOOFDM,recursiveleastsquares?
1.IntroductionOrthogonalfrequencydivisionmultiplexing(OFDM)technologyturnsafrequency-selectivechannelintoaparallelcollectionoffrequencyflatsub-channelstomitigatetheeffectsofintersymbolinterference(ISI).Ontheotherhand,multi-inputmulti-output(MIMO)systemscangainmuchmorespectralefflciency(inbitspersecondperhert~byadoptingmulti-antennaonbothendsofthewirelesslinkthansingle-inputsingle-output(SISO).Hence.thecombinationOf~ⅡM0systemswithOFDMtechnologyprovidesapromisingcandidatefornextgenerationfixedandmobilewirelesssystemsHoweveLaccuratechannelstateinformationsoisrequiredforspace-timedecodenThechannelstateinformationcanbeobtainedthroughtwotypesofmethods.Oneiscalledblindchannelestimation,whichexploresthestatisticalinformationofthechannelandcertainpropertiesofthetransmittedsignals.Theotheriscalledpilot-basedchannelestimation,whichisbasedonthepilotdatasentattheManuscriptreceivedOctobor16,2007;revisedNovember16,2007.ThisworkwassupposedbytheNafionaINatureScienceFoundationofChinaunderGrantNo.60372107.P..S.PanandB.-Y.ZhengarewithSchoolofCommunication&InformationEngineering,UniversityofNanjhagUniversityofPostsandTelecommunications,N眦jhag,210003,China(e-mail:
panps@,zby@}皿J).transmitterandknownaprioratthereceivenThoughtheformerhasitsadvantageofnooverheadcost,itneedsalongdatarecordandcomplexalgorithm.Asforthelattersomepilot-basedchannelestimationschemeshavebeenproposed[41’[61.Buttheseschemeshavehighcomputationalcomplexityandmemoryrequirementsandpriorknowledgeofthesecondorderstatisticsofchanne1.UsingpilottonestoobtaintheCS1wasdiscussedin【7】,whereanoptimalplacementofthepilottoneswasproposedforMIMOOFDMsystems.In【81,anadaptivecharmelestimationschemewasproposedfor~ⅡMOOFDMsystems.Thisschemeadaptivelyestimatethechannelimpulseresponseintimedomainbasedontheleast-mean-square(LMS)algorithm..Inthispaper,weproposeanadaptivecharmelestimationtechniquewhichadaptivelyestimatethechannelfrequencyresponsedirectlyinfrequencydomainbasedontherecursiveleastsquare(RLS)algorithmoffrequencydomain[.Wefirstgiveorthogonalstructureofpilottones.ThenthechannelfrequencyresponseofthesepilottonesisadaptivelyestimatedbyRLSalgorithminfrequencydomain.Inordertoobtainthechannelfrequencyresponseofdatatones.aninterpolationmethoddifferentfromlinearinterpolationmethodaccordingtoaacentpilottonesisproposed.Here,theestimationofchannelfrequencyresponseisobtainedthroughthechannelimpulseresponseintimedomain,whilethechannelimpulseresponseintimedomainisobtainedthroughthechannelfrequencyresp0nseofpilottones.Simulationresultshaveshowngoodperformanceforthetechnique.2.SystemModelAsimplifiedblockdiagramofMIMOOFDMsystemswithtwotransmitantennasandtworeceiverantennasisshowninFig.1.Attime,adatablockb[n,尼】,k=0,l,…,Ⅳ一listransformedintotwodifferentsignals:
In,k】:
k=0,l,…,N—l;l,2atthespacetimeencoder,whereMandfisthenttmberoftonesoftheOFDMsystems,toneindex.andantennaindexrespectivelyEachofthesesignalsformsanOFDMblock.Then,thetwotransmittingantennassimultaneouslytransmit0FDMblocksafteranN-lengthIFFToperation.314JOURNALOFELECTRONICSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGYOFCHINA,VOL.6,NO.3,SEPTEMBER2008Fig.1.MIMOOFDMsystem:
(a)transmitterand0o)receiverAtthereceiver,thediscreteFouriertransform(DFT)ofthereceivedsignalateachreceiverantennaisthesuperpositionoftwodistortedtransmittedsignals.TheoutputoftheFFTcanbeexpressedas即,】=∑In,】五[即,】+NIn,纠
(1)whereH即,】denotesthechannelfrequencyresponseatthekthtoneofthenthOFDMblock,correspondingtotheithtransmitandthejthreceiveantenna,N,[即,k】denotestheadditivecomplexGaussiannoiseonthejthreceivingantennaandisassumedtobezeromeanwithvariance.Wecanexpress
(1)inmatrixformas:
∑xH--lj+N
(2)whereViii/=[[即,0】,,1】,…,[即,N一111N=[Nj[n,othereceiveantenna,FdenotestheNxNDFTmatrix.ItiseasilyseenthatLtonescanbeusedfortrainingtorecoverthechanne1.LetK={白,,…,}bemesetofLtonesusedaspilottones.Wehave旦=(4)where望=[[】,[L¨?
[即,】F=略…时FisaVandermondematrix,soitisnon-singular,andtherefore,hcanbefoundbyinvertingit.Oncehisfound,wecanobtainthechannelfrequencyresponserequiredforspace—timedecoder.ThatmeansweonlyneedLpilottonesineachOFDMblocktorecoverythewholechannel~equencyresponse.LpilottonesareplacedequallyspacedwithN/Lin~equencydomain.Pilottonesaredividedinto2groupsfortwotransmitantennasrespectivelytomakethemorthogonal:
=,…,}=小?
+}.Forthe胁transmitantenna,sendingpilottoneson,sendingzerosignalson(≠f)andsendingdataonothertonesareshowninFig.2.Time(a)●PilotoZerosignaloDataTime(b)Fig.2.Pilotarrangement:
(a)antenna1andCo)antenna2.Onpilottonekoftheithtransmitantenna,onlythetoneitselfcansendsignals,then
(1)canbesimplifiedasfollowsaccordinglyL[n,k]:
In,k]x,In,k]+Ⅳ』In,k](5)HereAlamoutitl~lspacetimeencoderisadopted,sowhenm∈wehave,Y()=X()H()+N()(6)where,,......................._II口h.Tg叮2.TPANet口:
AnAdaptiveChannelEstimationTechniqueinMIMOOFDMSystems315Y()=[Yj[-,],Yj[n+1,]]xcH():
[H1In,],H2+l,]]N()=[NjIn,],+1,]].ThecorrespondingadaptiveestimationofthechannelfrequencyofpilottonesisshowninFig.3.Fig.3.Adaptivechannelestimationofpilottones()CaDbeupdatedbyusingRLSalgorithmtinfrequencydomainasfollows:
E十2():
Y()一X()()(7)():
()+G()E()(8)GP(:
川(一G也(x(P川()(1o)where()isfiltergainmatrix.Initializing,()=o,P[0]()=81.(11)Aftertheestimationofthechannelfrequencyresponseofpilottones,wecaDobtainthechannelfrequencyresponseofdatatones.By(4)thechannelimpulseresponseintimedomainwithmaximum1engthofchannelhcaD—befound,ther~byf3)thechannelfrequencyresponseneededbyspacetimedecodercaDbeobtained.Wenoticethefactthatthelengthofwirelesschannelist-miteaDdusuallyfarsmallerthanthenumberoftonesinaOFDMblock,soweaddawindowtothechannelimpulseresponseintimedomain,thenbyDFToperationtoacquirethechannelfrequencyresponse.4.SimulationInoursimulationsystem,twotransmitantennasusinga2x2Alamoutispacetimecodeareutilizedfordiversity.TheOFDMblocksizeischosenasN=512addacyctcprefix(CP)withlengthof16isinsertedattheheadofeachOFDMblock.Thefoursub.channelsareassumedtobeindependenttoeachotheraddtohavemaximum1engthofchannelL=16individually,whicharesimulatedbytheJakes’model[“.Dopplerrespectivelysimulatedasshiftaddcarrierfrequencyare{a148HzaDd{c3.2GHz.QPSKisapplied.Fig.4showsthattheBERperformanceofthereceiverwithadaptiveRLSchannelestimationisclosetOthatofthereceiverknowingthechanne1.InFig.5.weshowtheconvergencebehaviorofourRLSalgorithmsat15dBinthepilottone1.TheMSEresultswereObtainedbvaveragingover1OOsimulationrtms.Bycomparison.theconvergencebehaviorofLMSalgorithmsproposedin【8]isalsoshownwiththeadaptiveconstant1.Forconveniencetocomparethechannelfrequencyresponseatpilottone1ObtainedbyourRLSalgorithmswithLMSalgorithms,thechannelimpulseresponseintimedomainobtainedbyLMSalgorithmsineveryiteration(oneOFDMsymbo1duration)are仃aDSformedintothefrequencydomain.Sonot1osm’gjustness,weshowtheconvergencebehaviorofbothRLSaddLMS.ThereasonthattheproposedILSalgorithmconvergesmuchfasterthanLMSliesinitsprocessingdoneinfrequencydomainnotintimedomain.024681Ol214161820SNR(dB)Fig.4.Biterrorratev.s.SNRwimDopplershiftis148Hz.050100150200250300350400450500OFDMsymbolFig.5.ExperimentallearningcurvesofRLSandLMS.5000OFDMsymbolsaredealttodemonstratethetrackingforthepilottone1at15dBinFig.6aDdFig.7.Therealcomponentofthefiequencyresponseinthepilottone1aDdtheimaginarycomponentofthefrequencyresponseinpilot1are打ackedinFig.6aDdFig.7respectivelybyRLSalgorithm.Theresultshowsthegoodtrackingforthepilottone.ThisgoodtrackingisduetofasterconvergenceofRLSdoneinfrequencydomainthan●Lr【2●∞∞50505050505一pJ∞∞苫316JOURNALOFELECTRONICSCⅢNCEANDTECHN0【DGYOFCHrNA.VOL.6,NO.3,SEPTEMBER2008LMSdoneintimedomain.ItisclearthatthecomputationalcomplexityorderoftheRLSalgorithmiso(ZM~)andthatoftheLMSalgorithmisOLMr,),whereMrdenotesthenumberofreceiveantennas.OFDMsymbolOFDMsymbolFig.6.Comparisonoftherealcomponentofthefrequencyresponseofpilottone1betweentheestimationandrealchannelat15dB.OFDMsymbolOFDMsymbolFig.7.Comparisonoftheimaginarycomponentofthefrequencyresponseofpilottone1betweentheestimationandrealchannelat15dB.5.ConclusionsWeproposeanefficientadaptivechannelestimationtechniqueforMⅡMOOFDMsystems.TwosetsofLpilot.tonesaretransmittedattwoantennassimultaneouslyandthechannelcanbeestimatedemciently.Theadaptivechannelestimationtechniqueisbased0nISalgorithmanddonedirectlyinfrequencydomain.ThemainadvantageisrootedinitsabilitytotrackthechannelfrequencyresponseofpilottonesquicklyandtheacquirementofchannelfrequencyresponseindatatonesbasedonDFTnotlinearinterpolation.References【1】GJ.Foschini,”Layeredspace—timearchitectureforwirelesscommunicationsinafadingenvironmentwhenusingmulti—elementantennas,’’BellLabs.Tech.,vo1.1,no.2,pp.41.59,1996.【2】GJ.FoschiniandM.J.Gans,”Onlimitsofwirelesscommunicationsinafadingenvironmentwhenusingmulti.elementantennas,”FlessPersonalCommun.,vo1.6,no.3,pp.311-335,Mar.1998.【3】H.Sampath,S.Talwar,J.Tellado,VErceg,andA.Panlraj,‘Afourth-generationMM0.OFDMbroadbandwirelesssystem:
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