Optimal Pilots for Frequency Offset and Channel Estimation in OFDMA Uplink

Author

Zhang, Wei ; Zhang, Zhongshan ; Tellambura, Chintha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Optimal pilots design and placement for the frequency offset and channel estimation in orthogonal frequency- division multiplexing access (OFDMA) uplink systems are proposed. The received pilots of multiple users can always be demodulated, even if they are totally overlapped due to the large frequency offsets. With the knowledge of channel state information (CSI) at the receiver, the performance of the proposed frequency offset estimation is robust to the channel estimation errors. The frequency offset and CSI can be jointly estimated by employing the proposed pilots.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; channel estimation; frequency division multiple access; frequency estimation; OFDMA uplink systems; channel estimation; channel state information; frequency offset estimation; optimal pilot design; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access uplink systems; Channel estimation; Channel state information; Frequency estimation; Iterative algorithms; Maximum likelihood estimation; Multiple access interference; OFDM; Robustness; State estimation; Symmetric matrices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LO

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2324-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.654

Filename

4698429