IEICE Trans - A WDFT-Based Channel Estimator with Non-adaptive Linear Prediction in Non-sample Spaced Channels

A WDFT-Based Channel Estimator with Non-adaptive Linear Prediction in Non-sample Spaced Channels

Jeong-Wook SEO  Won-Gi JEON  Jong-Ho PAIK  Seok-Pil LEE  Dong-Ku KIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E93-A    No.7    pp.1375-1378
Publication Date: 2010/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E93.A.1375
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Digital Signal Processing
Keyword:
OFDM,  DFT-based channel estimation,  linear prediction,  virtual carriers,

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Summary:
This letter addresses the edge effect on a windowed discrete Fourier transform (WDFT)-based channel estimator for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with virtual carriers in non-sample spaced channels and derives a sufficient condition to reduce the edge effect. Moreover, a modified WDFT-based channel estimator with multi-step linear prediction as an edge effect reduction technique is proposed. Simulation results show that it offers around 5 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain over the conventional WDFT-based channel estimator at bit error rate (BER) of 10^-3.