Abstract
This paper investigates iterative channel estimation (ICE) for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) with multiple transmit antennas. To improve performance of channel estimation, we exploit the soft information of unknown data symbols on both the expected transmit antenna and the interfering transmit antenna. Maximum a posteriori (MAP)-based ICE is derived and is implemented using the fixed-point iteration (FPI). For an OFDM system with multiple transmit antennas, the proposed MAP-based ICE suggests a harmonic-average-based soft symbol on the expected transmit antenna while an arithmetic-average-based soft symbol on the interfering transmit antennas. Similar to an OFDM system with a single transmit antenna, MAP-based ICE can achieve the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) within only one iteration, when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is large enough.
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