BEM-Based Channel Estimation for 5G Multicarrier Systems
Conference: WSA 2018 - 22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
03/14/2018 - 03/16/2018 at Bochum, Deutschland
Proceedings: WSA 2018
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Dias, Joao T. (Federal Center for Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro (CEFET-RJ), Brazil)
Lamare, Rodrigo C. de (Centre for Telecommunications Studies (CETUC) of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Zakharov, Yuriy V. (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York, UK)
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate channel estimation techniques for 5G multicarrier systems. Due to the characteristics of the 5G application scenarios, channel estimation techniques have been tested in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM) systems. The orthogonality between subcarriers in OFDM systems permits inserting and extracting pilots without interference. However, due to pulse shaping, subcarriers in GFDM are no longer orthogonal and interfere with each other. Due to such interference, the channel estimation for GFDM is not trivial. A robust and low-complexity channel estimator can be obtained by combining a minimum mean-square error (MMSE) regularization and the basis expansion model (BEM) approach. In this work, we develop a BEM-type channel estimator along with a strategy to obtain the covariance matrix of the BEM coefficients. Simulations show that the BEM-type channel estimation shows performance close to that of the linear MMSE (LMMSE), even though there is no need to know the channel power delay profile, and its complexity is low.