Performance analysis of the low‐complexity adaptive channel estimation algorithms over non‐stationary multipath Rayleigh fading channels under carrier frequency offsets

Abstract

The use of selective partial updating method for reducing computational complexity of adaptive algorithms has been proposed recently. However, its performance analysis has not been studied as extensively and exactly as LMS or RLS algorithms for time-varying channel estimation. This paper provides performance analysis of the low-complexity family of affine projection algorithms based on selective partial update method on the estimation of multipath Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of carrier frequency offsets (CFO) and random channel variations. The analysis is based on the calculation of the error correlation matrix of the estimation, the mean-square weight error (MSWE) and the mean-square estimation error (MSE) parameters. The analysis does not use strong assumptions like small or large step-size, and explicit closed-form expressions for the MSE of estimation are obtained only from common hypotheses in wireless communication context. In this paper, the optimum step-size parameters minimizing the MSE of estimation are analytically derived without any simplifying assumptions. For the sake of comparison with other analytical approaches, the performance of the introduced algorithms is also investigated using the energy conservation relation. Likewise, for exact performance analysis, all the moment terms that appear in closed form expressions for the MSE of estimation are evaluated. Simulations are conduced to corroborate the presented studies and show that the theoretical results agree well with the simulation results over non-stationary multipath Rayleigh fading channels.