Pilot designs for channel estimation of MIMO OFDM systems with frequency-dependent I/Q imbalances

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2252-2264

  Minn, Hlaing ^a   Munoz, Daniel ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel estimation; I Q imbalance; MIMO; OFDM; pilot design

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GAIN CONTROL; MIMO SYSTEMS; WHITE NOISE;

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH DATA RATES WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; INPHASE AND QUADRATURE IMBALANCE; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; MULTIPLE INPUTS; MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; MULTIPLEINPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS (MIMO-OFDM); ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PILOT DESIGN; QUADRATURE IMBALANCE;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 77956221140     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2010.08.090150     Document Type: Article

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