An EM-based forward-backward Kalman filter for the estimation of time-variant channels in OFDM

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 7 II, 2007, Pages 3924-3930

  Al Naffouri, Tareq Y ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; Channel modeling; Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Frequency correlation; Kalman filters; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Time correlation; Time variant channels

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; FADING CHANNELS; KALMAN FILTERS;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; FREQUENCY CORRELATION; TIME-VARIANT CHANNELS;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 34347390831     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.894271     Document Type: Article

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