Performance of an optimum receiver scheme based on pilot-symbol channel estimation over a measured mimo channel

The performance of an optimum pilot-aided receiver scheme, designed for the separately-correlated Rician fading MIMO channel, is analyzed over realistic MIMO scenarios obtained by channel measurements. The receiver performs joint channel estimation and decoding based on pilot symbol insertion and space-time trellis codes without explicitly estimating the channel matrix. The channel parameters required by the receiver are estimated during the data transmission without any throughput loss. Simulation results show that the optimum receiver performance is very close to the performance of a receiver with ideal channel estimation.