Achievement Accurate CSI for AF Relay MIMO/OFDM Based on Complex HTRCI Pilot Signal with Enhanced MMSE Equalization

Yuta IDA
Chang-Jun AHN
Takahiro MATSUMOTO
Shinya MATSUFUJI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E98-A    No.11    pp.2254-2262
Publication Date: 2015/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E98.A.2254
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems)
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Keyword: 
AF relay transmissions,  MIMO,  OFDM,  complex HTRCI pilot signal,  enhanced MMSE equalization,  

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Summary: 
Amplify-and-forward (AF) relay multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems can achieve high data rate and high quality communications. On the other hand, it has to estimate all channels between the source-relay and relay-destination nodes in the destination node. In MIMO/OFDM systems, high time resolution carrier interferometry (HTRCI) has been proposed to achieve an accurate channel estimation (CE) with a small number of pilot signals. However, since it has many interferences, an accurate CE is not obtained and the system performance is degraded in AF relay MIMO/OFDM systems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the complex HTRCI (C-HTRCI) pilot signal and the enhanced minimum mean square error (E-MMSE) equalization to achieve an accurate CE and to improve the system performance for AF relay MIMO/OFDM systems.