Adaptive Pilot-Symbol Patterns for MIMO OFDM Systems

作者：Simko Michal^*; Diniz Paulo S R; Wang Qi; Rupp Markus

来源：IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2013, 12(9): 4705-4715.

DOI：10.1109/TWC.2013.081413.121998

• Pilot pattern
• OFDM
• MIMO
• LTE
• adaptive transmission system

Recent standards for cellular transmission systems offer a lot of flexibility, such as the choice of transmission modes, modulation alphabets, coding rates, and precoding matrices. Despite this trend, pilot-symbol patterns in today%26apos;s standards remain fixed, although such an approach is suboptimal. In this paper, we show how to design optimal pilot-symbol patterns by maximizing an upper bound of a constrained capacity that takes channel estimation errors and Inter Carrier Interference into account. Furthermore, we propose adaptive pilot-symbol patterns that follow changing channel statistics. As a proof of concept, we present throughput simulation results of two competitive systems, a transmission system compliant with the Long Term Evolution (LTE)-standard and an improved system utilizing the proposed adaptive pilot patterns. The transmission system utilizing adaptive pilot patterns outperforms an LTE-standard compliant system in all considered scenarios. The throughput gain for a single input single output system ranges between 3% and 80%. For a 4 x 4 transmission system, the performance gain is significantly higher and can reach up to 850% compared to a conventional LTE system.

• 出版日期2013-9