Channel estimation for iterative MIMO OFDM/OQAM transceivers

Conference: European Wireless 2008 - 14th European Wireless Conference
06/22/2008 - 06/25/2008 at Prague, Czech Republic

Proceedings: European Wireless 2008

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Javaudin, Jean-Philippe (France Télécom, R&D Division, 4 rue du Clos Courtel, 35512 Cesson-Sévigné BP 52, France)
Jiang, Yiqi (Altran, Centre d'Affaires Alphasis, 35760 Saint Grégoire, France)

Abstract:
OFDM/OQAM modulation scheme is an alternative to the conventional cyclic-prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) modulation. It allows a larger theoretical spectral efficiency as it does not require the use of any guard interval. In this paper we investigate and evaluate channel estimation for OFDM/OQAM modulations in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) context. We focus on transmission over radio channels and use a two transmit antenna spatial data multiplexing (SDM) scheme. Direct and iterative channel estimation algorithms are evaluated and compared in this paper.