Communications and Networking. 13th EAI International Conference, ChinaCom 2018, Chengdu, China, October 23-25, 2018, Proceedings

Research Article

Blind Channel Estimation of Doubly Selective Fading Channels

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-06161-6_65,
        author={Jinfeng Tian and Ting Zhou and Tianheng Xu and Honglin Hu and Mingqi Li},
        title={Blind Channel Estimation of Doubly Selective Fading Channels},
        proceedings={Communications and Networking. 13th EAI International Conference, ChinaCom 2018, Chengdu, China, October 23-25, 2018, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2019},
        month={1},
        keywords={Channel estimation Doubly selective fading channels Time-varying autocorrelation function Subspace},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-06161-6_65}
    }
    
  • Jinfeng Tian
    Ting Zhou
    Tianheng Xu
    Honglin Hu
    Mingqi Li
    Year: 2019
    Blind Channel Estimation of Doubly Selective Fading Channels
    CHINACOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-06161-6_65
Jinfeng Tian1, Ting Zhou1, Tianheng Xu1, Honglin Hu1, Mingqi Li1,*
  • 1: Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
*Contact email: limq@sari.ac.cn

Abstract

Blind channel identification methods based on second-order statistics (SOS), have attracted much attention in the literature. However, these estimators suffer from the phase ambiguity problem, until additional diversity can be exploited. In this paper, with the aid of the cyclic prefix (CP) induced periodicity, a channel identification algorithm based on the time varying autocorrelation function (TVAF) is proposed for doubly selective fading channels in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The closed-form expression for time-varying channel identification is derived within the restricted support set of time index. Particularly, the CP-induced TVAF components and their corresponding channel-spread correlation elements implicitly carry rich channel information and are not perturbed by additive noise. These advantageous peaks can be employed to address the phase uncertainty problem, offering an alternative way of increasing the rank of signal matrix to achieve complementary diversity. Simulation results demonstrate the proposed method can provide distinctly higher accurate of channel estimation over the classical scheme.