Optimizing training lengths and training intervals in time-varying fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1098-1112

  Savazzi, Stefano ^a   Spagnolini, Umberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gauss Markov fading; MMSE channel estimation; Throughput optimization; Time varying fading channels; Training based channel estimation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ESTIMATION; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THROUGHPUT; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSIONS;

GAUSS-MARKOV FADING; MMSE CHANNEL ESTIMATION; THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION; TIME-VARYING FADING CHANNELS; TRAINING BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 61549088709     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.2009270     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. J. K. Cavers, "An analysis of pilot symbol assisted modulation for Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 40, pp. 686-693, Nov. 1991.
2. T. L. Marzetta, "Blast training: Estimating channel characteristics for high-capacity space-time wireless," presented at the Proc. 37th Ann. Allerton Conf. Commun., Control, Comput., Sep. 22-24, 1999.
3. B. Hassibi and B. M. Hochwald, "How much training is needed in multiple-antenna wireless links?," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theroy, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 951-963, Apr. 2003.
4. O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini, "Lower bound on training-based channel estimation error for frequency-selective block-fading Rayleigh MIMO channels," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 3265-3277, Nov. 2004.
5. F. Chan, "Statistical methods on detecting superpositional signals in a wireless channel," Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Jul. 2006.
6. J. Baltersee, G. Fock, and H. Meyr, "An information theoretic foundation of synchronized detection," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 2115-2123, 2001.
7. J. Baltersee, G. Fock, and H. Meyr, "Achievable rate of MIMO channels with data-aided channel estimation and perfect interleaving," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 2358-2368, 2001.
8. S. Akin and M. C. Gursoy, "Training optimization for Gaussian-Markov Rayleigh fading channels," in Proc. IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 2007, pp. 5999-6004.
9. S. Misra, A. Swami, and L. Tong, "Optimal training over the Gauss-Markov fading channel: A cutoff rate analysis," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., May 2004, vol. 3, pp. 809-812.
10. M. Dong, L. Tong, and B. M. Sadler, "Optimal insertion of pilot symbols for transmissions over time-varying flat fading channels," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1403-1418, May 2004.
11. Q. Sun, D. C. Cox, H. C. Huang, and A. Lozano, "Estimation of continuous flat fading MIMO channels," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 549-553, Oct. 2002.
12. V. Pohl, P. H. Nguyen, V. Jungnickel, and C. v. Helmolt, "Continuous flat-fading MIMO channels: Achievable rate and optimal length of the training and data phases," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1889-1900, Jul. 2005.
13. M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing: Estimation Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2005.
14. I. Abou-Faycal, M. Medard, and U. Madhow, "Binary adaptive coded pilot symbol assisted modulation over Rayleigh fading channels without feedback," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 53, pp. 1036-1046, Jun. 2005.
15. A. Gaston, W. Chriss, and E. Walker, "A multipath fading simulator for radio," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. VT-22, pp. 241-244, 1973.
16. A. J. Grant, "Optimal sequences for efficient estimation of multipath channels," in Proc. IEEE 5th Int. Symp. Spread Spectrum Technol. Appl., Sep. 2-4, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 56-58.
17. E. d. Carvalho and D. Slock, "Cramer-rao bounds for semi blind, blind and training sequence based channel estimation," in Proc. 1st IEEE Signal Proc. Workshop on Signal Process. Adv. Wireless Commun., Apr. 1997, vol. 1, pp. 129-132.
18. D. Tse and P.Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.
19. M. Stojanovic, J. Proakis, and J. Catipovic, "Analysis of the impact of the channel estimation errors on the performance of a decision feedback equalizer in fading multipath channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 43, pp. 877-886, Feb. 1995.
20. M. K. Tsatsanis, G. B. Giannakis, and G. Zhou, "Estimation and equalization of fading channels with random coefficients," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 53, no. 2-3, pp. 211-229, Sep. 1996.
21. L. Lindbom, "A Wiener filtering approach to the design of tracking algorithm," Ph.D., Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 1995.
22. K. E. Baddour and N. C. Beaulieu, "Autoregressive modeling for fading channel simulation," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1650-1650, Jul. 2005.
23. P. A. Bello, "Characterization of randomly time-variant linear channels," IEEE Trans. Commun. Syst., vol. CS-11, pp. 360-393, Dec. 1963.
24. W. C. Jakes, Jr, Microwave Mobile Communications. New York: Wiley, 1974.
25. J. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
26. M. A. R. Baissas and A. M. Sayeed, "Pilot-based estimation of time-varying multipath channels for coherent cdma receivers," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 2037-2037, Aug. 2002.