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MMSE Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems

The document discusses channel estimation techniques for OFDM systems. It introduces MMSE channel estimation, which exploits prior knowledge of channel and noise distributions to decrease estimation error compared to least squares estimation. The document then outlines simulating and comparing the performance of MMSE and LS estimation by plotting mean squared error versus symbol error rate.

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MMSE Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems

The document discusses channel estimation techniques for OFDM systems. It introduces MMSE channel estimation, which exploits prior knowledge of channel and noise distributions to decrease estimation error compared to least squares estimation. The document then outlines simulating and comparing the performance of MMSE and LS estimation by plotting mean squared error versus symbol error rate.

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THE MMSE CHANNEL ESTIMATION BASED ON DFT FOR OFDM SYSTEM

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

form of signal multiplexing which involves assigning nonoverlapping frequency ranges to different signals or to each "user" of a medium.

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

A frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) scheme utilized as a digital multicarrier modulation method. A large number of closely-spaced orthogonal sub-carriers are used to carry data

CONNECTION OF OFDM AND IFFT


The hardware solution, which makes use of multiple modulators and demodulators, was somewhat impractical for use in the civil systems

The ability to define the signal in the frequency domain, in software on VLSI processors, and to generate the signal using the inverse Fourier transform is the key to its current popularity

CHANNEL ESTIMATOR
Estimates the difference between the input and the output Add the difference to reproduce the same information from the input Operates on some estimation algorithms

LEAST-SQUARE ESTIMATION
If the channel and noise distributions are unknown, then the least-square estimator (also known as the minimum-variance unbiased estimator) is

MMSE CHANNEL ESTIMATION


If the channel and noise distributions are known, then this a priori information can be exploited to decrease the estimation error. This approach is known as Bayesian estimation and for Rayleigh fading channels it exploits that

OFDM SYSTEM WITH CHANNEL ESTIMATOR

SIMULATION

In this part we perform the comparison between LS estimation and MMSE estimation, plotting MSE (Mean Square Error) versus SER (Symbol Error Rate)

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