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Channel Estimation and ICI Cancelation in Vehicular Channels of OFDM Wireless Communication Systems
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme increases bandwidth efficiency (BE) of data transmission and eliminates inter symbol interference (ISI). As a result, it has been widely used for wideband communication systems that have been developed during the past two decades and it can be a good candidate for the emerging communication systems such as fifth generation (5G) cellular networks with high carrier frequency and communication systems of high speed vehicles such as high speed trains (HSTs) and supersonic unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). However, the employment of OFDM for those upcoming systems is challenging because of high Doppler shifts. High Doppler shift makes the wideband communication channel to be both frequency selective and time selective, doubly selective (DS), causes inter carrier interference (ICI) and destroys the orthogonality between the subcarriers of OFDM signal. In order to demodulate the signal in OFDM systems and mitigate ICIs, channel state information (CSI) is required. In this work, we deal with channel estimation (CE) and ICI cancellation in DS vehicular channels. The digitized model of the DS channels can be short and dense, or long and sparse. CE methods that perform well for short and dense channels are highly inefficient for long and sparse channels. As a result, for the latter type of channels, we proposed the employment of compressed sensing (CS) based schemes for estimating the channel. In addition, we extended our CE methods for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) scenarios. We evaluated the CE accuracy and data demodulation fidelity, along with the BE and computational complexity of our methods and compared the results with the previous CE procedures in different environments. The simulation results indicate that our proposed CE methods perform considerably better than the conventional CE schemes
Compressive sensing based Bayesian sparse channel estimation for OFDM communication systems: high performance and low complexity
In orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) communication systems,
channel state information (CSI) is required at receiver due to the fact that
frequency-selective fading channel leads to disgusting inter-symbol
interference (ISI) over data transmission. Broadband channel model is often
described by very few dominant channel taps and they can be probed by
compressive sensing based sparse channel estimation (SCE) methods, e.g.,
orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm, which can take the advantage of sparse
structure effectively in the channel as for prior information. However, these
developed methods are vulnerable to both noise interference and column
coherence of training signal matrix. In other words, the primary objective of
these conventional methods is to catch the dominant channel taps without a
report of posterior channel uncertainty. To improve the estimation performance,
we proposed a compressive sensing based Bayesian sparse channel estimation
(BSCE) method which can not only exploit the channel sparsity but also mitigate
the unexpected channel uncertainty without scarifying any computational
complexity. The propose method can reveal potential ambiguity among multiple
channel estimators that are ambiguous due to observation noise or correlation
interference among columns in the training matrix. Computer simulations show
that propose method can improve the estimation performance when comparing with
conventional SCE methods.Comment: 24 pages,16 figures, submitted for a journa
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