• DocumentCode
    1453372
  • Title

    On Optimum Pilot Design for Comb-Type OFDM Transmission over Doubly-Selective Channels

  • Author

    Islam, K. M Zahidul ; Al-Naffouri, Tareq Y. ; Al-Dhahir, Naofal

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
  • Volume
    59
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    4/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    930
  • Lastpage
    935
  • Abstract
    We consider comb-type OFDM transmission over doubly-selective channels. Given a fixed number and total power of the pilot subcarriers, we show that the MMSE-optimum pilot design consists of identical equally-spaced clusters where each cluster is zero-correlation-zone sequence.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; least mean squares methods; optimisation; MMSE-optimum pilot design; comb-type OFDM transmission; doubly-selective channels; equally-spaced clusters; fixed number; pilot subcarriers; zero-correlation-zone sequence; Channel estimation; Doppler effect; Frequency domain analysis; OFDM; Optimization; Periodic structures; Time domain analysis; Doppler; ICI; OFDM; Pilot optimization; ZCZ sequence;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2011.020411.100151
  • Filename
    5715843