A low complexity pilot aided channel estimation method for WCDMA communication systems

Author

Fantacci, R. ; Marabissi, D.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Univ. di Firenze, Italy

Volume

54

Issue

5

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1739

Lastpage

1746

Abstract

This letter deals with the performance evaluation of a pilot aided method for estimating channel parameters in wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) communication systems. Unlike previous approaches, a successive interference cancellation algorithm is used to reduce multipath and multiuser interference caused by pilot signal replicas on the channel parameter estimation, and on the detection of the information bearing signals. Comparisons with the ideal case of perfect knowledge of the channel parameters and the classical channel parameter estimation algorithm have highlighted the good performance of the proposed approach.

Keywords

broadband networks; cellular radio; channel estimation; code division multiple access; interference suppression; radiofrequency interference; WCDMA communication system; information bearing signals; interference cancellation algorithm; low complexity pilot aided channel estimation method; multipath interference reduction; multiuser interference reduction; performance evaluation; wideband code division multiple access; Application specific integrated circuits; Channel estimation; Fading; Interference cancellation; Maximum likelihood detection; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Multiuser detection; Parameter estimation; Wideband; Code division multiaccess; interference suppression; parameter estimation; spread spectrum communications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2005.853476

Filename

1542590