Iterative ICI mitigation method for MIMO OFDM systems

作者:Chen, R*; Xu, YY; Zhang, HB; Luo, HW
来源:IEICE - Transactions on Communications, 2006, E89B(3): 859-866.
DOI:10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.3.859

摘要

In this paper, we propose an ICI mitigation method for MIMO OFDM using turbo detection technique. In order to reduce the computational complexity, we present a method for dividing the received frequency-domain signals into subbands and the manner of division varies with each iteration, joint soft ICI cancellation and decoding is then performed on each subband. To perform iterative ICI mitigation, the estimation of the time-variant channel using a great quantity of pilot tones is needed, which results in poor spectral efficiency. We then propose a method to reduce the required scatter pilot tones, which is differentially-modulated-pilot scheme. Moreover, the estimation can be constructed based on EM-type algorithms to further reduce the computational complexity. Finally, the results of computer simulations demonstrate that the proposal can provide significant performance improvement.