Title
Pilot Design Schemes for Sparse Channel Estimation in OFDM Systems
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the pilot design based on the mutual incoherence property (MIP) for sparse channel estimation in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. With respect to the length of channel impulse response (CIR), we first derive a sufficient condition for the optimal pilot pattern generated from the cyclic different set (CDS). Since the CDS does not exist for most practical OFDM systems, we propose three pilot design schemes to obtain a near-optimal pilot pattern. The first two schemes, including stochastic sequential search (SSS) and stochastic parallel search (SPS), are based on the stochastic search. The third scheme called iterative group shrinkage (IGS) employs a tree-based searching structure and removes rows in a group instead of removing a single row at each step. We later extend our work to multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems and propose two schemes, i.e., sequential design scheme and joint design scheme. We also combine them to design the multiple orthogonal pilot patterns, i.e., using the sequential scheme for the first several transmit antennas and using the joint scheme to design the pilot pattern for the remaining transmit antennas. Simulation results show that the proposed SSS, SPS, and IGS converge much faster than the cross-entropy optimization and the exhaustive search and are thus more efficient. Moreover, SSS and SPS outperform IGS in terms of channel estimation performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TVT.2014.2331085
IEEE T. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
sps,mimo,algorithm design and analysis,transmission,antennas,cir,exhaustive search,coherence,iterative methods,vectors,optimization,design,ofdm modulation,ofdm,cds,orthogonality,stochastic processes
Algorithm design,Brute-force search,Computer science,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Frequency-division multiple access,Multiplexing,Linear search,Sequential analysis,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
4
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.44
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenhao Qi120926.34
Guosen Yue257342.13
Lenan Wu370062.18
Yongming Huang41472146.50
Arumugam Nallanathan53694237.64