Comparison of EM-based algorithms for MIMO channel estimation

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 216-226

  Wautelet, Xavier ^a   Herzet, Cédric ^a,b   Dejonghe, Antoine ^c   Louveaux, Jérôme ^a   Vandendorpe, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Iterative estimation; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; Turbo detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE ESTIMATION; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); TURBO DETECTION;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847668392     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.887507     Document Type: Article

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