Performance of channel estimation based on DD-EW RLS and NLMS for outdoor MIMO OFDM system

This paper is focusing on the performance of the proposed exponentially weight recursive least square (EW-RLS) and normalized least mean square (NLMS) channel estimator using simulations, in the context of the communication system with MIMO antenna operating in outdoor environments. Different training rates and different Doppler frequencies are used to track time-variations of the channel. Three adaptive algorithms are considered; namely the least squares (LS), RLS algorithm and the least mean square (LMS) algorithm. In channel estimation, RLS is widely used especially for slow time-varying. Even though RLS is little bit complex compare to LMS, but it has faster convergence speed. The performance is evaluated in terms of the mean square error (MSE) of the channel estimate, and the system bit error rate (BER), for different Doppler frequencies (correspond to different mobility speeds). Simulation results have demonstrated that time-domain adaptive channel estimation and tracking in MIMO OFDM systems based on the decision directed (DD) EW-RLS and DD-NLMS is very effective in slowly to moderate time-varying fading channels. This paper provides analysis, evaluation and computer simulations in MATLAB.