Iterative Receiver Design With Joint Doubly Selective Channel and CFO Estimation for Coded MIMO-OFDM Transmissions

This paper is concerned with the problem of turbo (iterative) processing for joint channel and carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation and soft decoding in coded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) systems over time- and frequency-selective (doubly selective) channels. In doubly selective channel modeling, a basis expansion model (BEM) is deployed as a fitting parametric model to reduce the number of channel parameters to be estimated. Under pilot-aided Bayesian estimation, CFO and BEM coefficients are treated as random variables to be estimated by the maximum a posteriori technique. To attain better estimation performance without sacrificing spectral efficiency, soft bit information from a soft-input-soft-output (SISO) decoder is exploited in computing soft estimates of data symbols to function as pilots. These additional pilot signals, together with the original signals, can help to enhance the accuracy of channel and CFO estimates for the next iteration of SISO decoding. The resulting turbo estimation and decoding performance is enhanced in a progressive manner by benefiting from the iterative extrinsic information exchange in the receiver. Both extrinsic information transfer chart analysis and numerical results show that the iterative receiver performance is able to converge fast and close to the ideal performance using perfect CFO and channel estimates.