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(Semi-)blind channel estimation for space time block coded system with transmit diversity

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This paper deals with a blind channel estimation method for space-time coded block transmission system. By concatenating the real part and imaginary part of the received signal to form an elongated vector, we derive an equivalent input–output system model. Then channel state information (CSI) is blindly estimated using subspace method, utilizing only the redundancy inherent in space-time block coding (STBC) and cyclic prefix (CP). The estimation ambiguity, which is common to all blind methods, is analyzed in detail and we prove that there only exist four scalar indeterminacies. Three effective methods to eliminate the ambiguities are also proposed. Compared with other blind channel estimation methods for space time systems, this method needs neither redundant precoding nor oversampling, and thus has higher data rate. Besides, this method is robust to channel order overestimation, which is effectively demonstrated by numerical simulations.

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 210096

    Daofeng Xu & Luxi Yang

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This work was supported by NSFC (60496310, 60672093), NSFJS(BK2005061) and BK2005061.

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Xu, D., Yang, L. (Semi-)blind channel estimation for space time block coded system with transmit diversity. SIViP 1, 89–97 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-007-0008-5

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