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A Multirate Pilot-Symbol-Assisted Channel Estimator for OFDM Transmitter Diversity Systems

Overview Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter diversity techniques have been shown to be efficient means of achieving near optimal diversity gain in frequency-selective fading channels. For these systems, knowledge of the channel parameters is required at the receivers for diversity combining and decoding. This paper proposes a low complexity, bandwidth efficient, pilotsymbol-assisted channel estimator for multiple transmitter OFDM systems. The pilot symbols are constructed to be non-overlapping in frequency to allow for the simultaneous sounding of the multiple channels. The time-varying channel responses are tracked by interpolating a set of estimates obtained through periodically transmitted pilot symbols. The effectiveness and limitations of the proposed estimator are verified by simulations.

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Publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wireless LAN, Bandwidth Issues, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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