Channel Estimation Method Using Nonrectangular Lattice Filter for Mobile Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting

We investigated channel estimation with scattered pilots (SPs) in digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) and the performance of a receiver with a two-dimensional (2D) filter. High-accuracy interpolation is necessary because we perform channel equalization with SPs, which are inserted in transmit signals nonrectangularly. This interpolation is performed with a 2D filter that has a nonrectangular spectrum. However, the generation of the 2D filter involves heavy computational complexity. We propose a method of reducing the computational complexity by designing separable 2D filters. In addition, we present simulation results that compare our method with some conventional methods and show its effectiveness.