Iterative channel estimation and decoding in turbo coded space-time systems

作者:Ronen Sefi; Bross Shraga I*; Shamai Shlomo; Duman Tolga M
来源:European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2007, 18(7): 719-734.
DOI:10.1002/ett.1159

摘要

A noncoherent multiple antenna coded communication system over both block fading and time-selective flat fading Rayleigh channel is considered. Several iterative decoding strategies consisting of pilot symbol assisted demodulation and turbo decoding are proposed. It is shown that, at a system rate of 0.9 bits per channel use, the SNR required to achieve a BER of 10(-4) is only about 2 dB from the imperfect CSI capacity lower bound. The channel estimation error variance is demonstrated to be close to the theoretical limit set by the Modified Cramer-Rao bound. The simulation results coincide with the trends dictated by recent information-theoretic analysis and demonstrate the effect that inaccuracy of the channel estimation has on the performance of the iterative decoding scheme.

  • 出版日期2007-11