Compressed sensing based channel estimation for fast fading OFDM systems

Abstract

A compressed sensing (CS) based channel estimation algorithm is proposed by using the delay-Doppler sparsity of the fast fading channel. A compressive basis expansion channel model with sparsity in both time and frequency domains is given. The pilots in accordance with a novel random pilot matrix in both time and frequency domains are sent to measure the delay-Doppler sparsity channel. The relatively nonzero channel coefficients are tracked by random pilots at a sampling rate significantly below the Nyquist rate. The sparsity channels are estimated from a very limited number of channel measurements by the basis pursuit algorithm. The proposed algorithm can effectively improve the channel estimation performance when the number of pilot symbols is reduced with improvement of throughput efficiency.