Third generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) uses single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) in uplink transmission and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme for the downlink. A variable step size based least mean squares (LMS) algorithm is formulated for a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system, in its channel estimation (CE). The weighting coefficients on the channel condition can be updated using this unbiased CE method. Channel and noise statistics information are not essential. Rather, it uses a phase weighting scheme to eliminate the signal fluctuations due to noise and decision errors. The convergence towards the true channel coefficient is guaranteed. The proposed algorithm is compared with the existing algorithms for BER and MSE performance in different channel environments
