Blind channel estimation in orthogonally coded MIMO-OFDM systems: A semidefinite relaxation approach

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2354-2364

  Sarmadi, Nima ^a   Shahbazpanahi, Shahram ^b   Gershman, Alex B ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; Multiple input multipleoutput systems; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; Semidefinite relaxation; Space time block coding

Indexed keywords

BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COHERENT PROCESSING; FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE CHANNELS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MIMO-OFDM CHANNELS; MIMO-OFDM SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLEOUTPUT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES; PARAMETRIC MODELS; SEMI-DEFINITE PROGRAMMING; SEMIDEFINITE RELAXATION; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING; SUB-CARRIERS; SUBCARRIER; SUBCARRIER CHANNELS; TIME DOMAIN;

BLIND EQUALIZATION; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAIN CONTROL; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INFORMATION THEORY; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 66849095467     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2016887     Document Type: Article

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