Analysis of Decision-Feedback Based Broadband OFDM Systems

Author

De Baynast, Alexandre ; Sabharwal, Ashutosh ; Aazhang, Behnaam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX

fYear

2005

fDate

Oct. 28 2005-Nov. 1 2005

Firstpage

692

Lastpage

696

Abstract

In wireless communications, about 25% of the bandwidth is dedicated to training symbols for channel estimation. By using a semi-blind approach, the training sequence length can be reduced while improving performance. The principle is as follows: the detected symbols (hard decision) are fed back to the channel estimator in order to re-estimate the channel more accurately. However, semi-blind approach can significantly deteriorate the performance if the bit error rate is high. In this paper, we propose to determine analytically the minimum signal to noise ratio (SNR) from which a semi-blind method starts to outperform a training sequence based only system

Keywords

OFDM modulation; automatic repeat request; broadband networks; channel estimation; error statistics; mobile radio; bit error rate; broadband OFDM systems; channel estimation; decision-feedback analysis; semiblind approach; signal to noise ratio; symbol detection; training sequence length; wireless communications; Additive noise; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Channel estimation; Detectors; Fading; OFDM; Signal analysis; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0131-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2005.1599840

Filename

1599840