Enhanced channel estimation technique in MIMO-OFDM system

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), MIMO-OFDM, is considered as a spectrally efficient approach to achieve high throughput communications. This paper investigates the performance of MIMO-OFDM system using the proposed NLMS adaptive equalizer and the developed Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) technique in estimating the channel. The performances of using various values of the NLMS algorithm´s step-size were also investigated and an optimum value, based on a trade-off between the convergence speed and the steady state noise floor, was chosen. Then, the bit error rate (BER) performance of the NLMS adaptive receiver is compared with that of the SVD algorithm. It is clear that the SVD gives better performance over the NLMS adaptive filter.