Doubly selective fading channel estimation in MIMO OFDM systems

Abstract

High data transmission rates and high mobility give rise to time- and frequency-selectivity in wireless communication channels. This paper investigated time and frequency doubly selective channel estimation using pilot tones among Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Firstly, a complex exponential basis expansion channel model (BECM) was introduced to represent doubly selective channel during an OFDM symbol period; then, based on BECM, an effective MIMO-OFDM doubly selective channel estimation method was presented; finally, the optimality in designing pilot tones parameters was done according to the minimization of channel estimation MSE, mainly including the number, the placement and the structure of pilot tones. Simulation results show that the proposed estimation method has good performance in doubly selective channel scenarios and confirms the theoretical analysis findings.