In regards to turbo codes, to the author's knowledge, previous literature has treated decoder assisted frame synchronization and channel estimation as separate processes. Here a joint decoder assisted process of channel estimation and frame synchronization is proposed. In brief, the method entails using a sync word (SW) embedded mid-packet for both channel estimation and frame synchronization. ...

The authors investigate the performance of amplify-and-forward relaying with two different pilotsymbol-assisted channel estimation methods. In the first estimation method, the cascaded channel consisting of source-to-relay and relay-to-destination links is estimated at the destination terminal. No channel estimator is required at the relay terminal. In the second estimation method, the estimati...

This paper presents a new algorithm for the channel estimation of the OFDM system based on a pilot signal for the new generation of high data rate communication systems. In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over fast-varying fading channels, channel estimation and tracking is generally carried out by transmitting known pilot symbols in given positions of the frequency-ti...

Parallel interference cancellation (PIC) principle is conceptually simple and yet eeective method of parameter estimation and data detection in the presence of multiple-access and multipath interference. It uniies some of the known methods of data detection, complex channel co-eecient estimation, as well as delay tracking in DS-CDMA receivers. The PIC method will be derived and some numerical r...

In this paper, we investigate on some efficient channel estimation methods for the aeronautical multipaths channel. The proposed methods exploit both the particular form of the channel impulse response and a priori knowledge of some parameters (mainly delays) that can be inferred from geometrical considerations based on geolocation. The first estimation method is based on a parametric multipath...

In this paper we derive closed-form expressions for the single-user capacity of Maximum Ratio Combiner (MRC) system system, taking into account the effect of imperfect channel estimation at the receiver. The channel considered is a slowly varying spatially independent flat Rayleigh fading channel. The complex channel estimate and the actual channel are modelled as jointly Gaussian random variab...

In this paper, hardware implementation aspects of the channel estimator in 3GPP LTE terminals are investigated. A channel estimation ASIC, which handles the real-time channel estimation, is presented. Compared to traditional correlatorbased channel estimators, the channel estimator presented boosts the throughput at feasible silicon cost by adopting a recently proposed estimation method named A...

In a receiver employing Turbo equalization for an unknown, time-varying, frequency-selective channel, the channel estimate can be improved for each iteration by using soft information fed back from the decoder. The reference signal to the channel estimator is then the expected value of each transmitted symbol and not the symbol itself. Therefore, classical channel estimation theory must be appl...

One of the main challenges for a massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system is to obtain accurate channel state information despite the increasing number of antennas at the base station. The Bayesian learning channel estimation methods have been developed to reconstruct the sparse channel. However, these existing methods depend heavily on the channel distribution. In this paper, based on sp...

We propose channel estimation and direct equalization techniques for transmission over doubly selective channels. The doubly selective channel is approximated using the basis expansion model (BEM). Linear and decision feedback equalizers implemented by time-varying finite impulse response (FIR) filtersmay then be used to equalize the doubly selective channel, where the time-varying FIR filters ...